practice wickedness and seem to get away with it. In his novel The Chosen‚ Chaim Potok provides such a character: a sweet‚ innocent boy named Billy who has a sad story. Throughout his small part in the book‚ Billy demonstrates joy in the midst of blindness and a rough family situation. While recovering from his injury in the hospital‚ the young boy makes a lasting impression on Reuven‚ the main character‚ with his kind heart and sunny personality. Even though he could choose to turn angry or bitter
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prophecies surfacing various times throughout the play. As Tiresias prophesies‚ “I say without knowing it you are living in shameful intimacy with your nearest and dearest. You do not see the evil in which you live. [...] You have mocked at my blindness‚ but you‚ who have eyes‚ cannot see the living‚ nor with whom you share your house. [...] Without knowing it‚ you are the enemy of your own flesh and blood‚ the dead below and living here above.” (Oedipus pg. 25) Tiresias tells Oedipus of the
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throughout her novel with Victor’s parallellism with society in the way he goes about his science ‘I was left with a Childs blindness added to a student’s thirst for knowledge’ this thirst for knowledge in victor was not accompanied by thought for the future it was the ‘childs blindness’ to go with his ‘ardent curiosity’ that created a ‘monster’. Frankenstein’s arrogance and ignorance is making a statement about humanity’s lust to be enlightened with ‘both eyes open‚ only to be blinded in one eye’ with
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“Now you know! That’s what it was to be alive… that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.” Simon experiences much emotional pain; he realizes how thoughtless he was with the other townspeople and how he never let any get close to him. Simon said that live people will never understand how important life is‚ how beautiful and precious it is. They are just full of ignorance and will “always be at the mercy of one self-centered passion.” Through the thoughts
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many people are lazy‚ if it is not handed to them on a silver platter it may as well not exist. This ignorance of government and politics leads an individual to be unable to figure out for themselves what the costs or benefits are in what the government does when making policies or laws. This blindness leads people to think that finding out more is useless to them and this rationalized ignorance‚ creates a feedback loop that few ever break. What needs to happen is increased spreading information
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of the Cave‚ he explains the ignorance of the current human situation by describing events that happened to men chained in a cave. These men were chained by the neck and legs‚ so they could only face the cave wall. As the men sit‚ they often see shadows of animals and humans from the flickering fire that is behind them. One day‚ a man is released from his chains to venture around the cave‚ making his way out of the cave. During his adventure‚ he experiences blindness from the light and witnesses
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her book who wrong her in any way. Life in the favela consists of disease‚ hunger‚ alcoholism and violence. Carolina writes about the presence of inequality between the rich and the poor. She values independence‚ the power of words‚ and loathes blindness of authority and false promises of politicians. She collects metal scraps and paper to earn money for food. Her only reprieve from this task is the rarity of kindness from her friends and once when a man stopped and gave Vera‚ one hundred cruzieros
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The Cave and the Christian In Plato’s Republic we have one of the best allegories told‚ the allegory of the Cave. The allegory of the cave goes basically like this: Suppose people were born in a cave and from birth they were chained up and unable to turn their heads. All they could do was to look straight ahead at a wall. Far behind them there was a fire burning and in from of that fire people would walk with object in their hands‚ statues and the like. All the chained prisoners could see would
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The ignition to all of the fires in Denmark is poison. In the book Hamlet‚ poison is used as a metaphor and a motif. It was used to kill Hamlet’s father and then trickled its way to Hamlet’s heart after finding out about his father’s murder. A fire burned bright within Hamlet to seek revenge for his father‚ with doing so he swallows the poison from the Ghost and spewed it across those close around him because not only does Hamlet begin the demise of himself but he spreads it to those who cared for
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"Listen to me. You mock my blindness‚ do you?/ But I say that you‚ with both your eyes‚ are blind" (I‚ 195-196). With these memorable words‚ the sightless prophet Teiresias all but paints the entire tragic story of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King‚ one of the most prominent pieces of Greek literary heritage. Greeks knew and loved the story of Oedipus from childhood‚ just as children today cherish the story of Cinderella. In his version of the beloved tale‚ Sophocles concentrates his attention on the
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