group of individuals. The more challenged otherwise solidified expectations of the individual are‚ the more likely those elements are to be uprooted and replanted‚ contributing to a movement that advances the group in a new direction. The film Pleasantville highlights the propensity humans have to become flexible‚ adaptive creatures when prompted by external forces that are appealing to their self interests. When guided by such forces‚ people will mold themselves into newer‚ brighter versions of themselves
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the analysis of three readings entitled “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato‚ “Civil Disobedience” by Thoreau‚ and “A Letter from Birmingham Jail” by King‚ the reader can conclude that the main idea of the nature of good revolves around personal morals and open-mindedness rather than civil law or majority rule in the face of justice. In “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato‚ the nature of good is represented through the deprivation of light the prisoners of the cave experience. In this imaginary representation
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Jennifer is first shown to the audience as a girl who tries to fit in by having sex with a lot of people to gain friends and popularity. When she enters Pleasantville‚ she becomes the initial catalyst by pinning down Skip Martin at Lovers Lane which changes the script in the story. From then onwards Lovers Lane becomes a place filled with people having sex‚ as time goes on colour is introduced where changes happen. Jennifer shows interest in the books‚ when she first recites the plot of a book but
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The allegory goes that there are prisoners kept in a deep underground cave. They are chained so that all they can view is the back wall of the cave- they cannot see behind them‚ or even each other. They have been like this all their lives. On the back wall passes a constant stream of shadows that the prisoners can see but the prisoners cannot identify the causes of shadows. The shadows are caused by people carrying cardboard cut outs walking back and forth behind the prisoners. The fire between the
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In the film Pleasantville‚ directed by Gary Ross‚ women are looked at as objects. When the husband comes home from work‚ he expects the wife to be in the kitchen cooking dinner‚ or already have it ready when he arrives home. Very few women had jobs‚ their initial job was to be at home doing housework and taking care of the kids. To me‚ Pleasantville represented women just like that‚ until the end. The mom ended up leaving her husband and started doing her own thing‚ which I think is great. In the
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The Allegory of the Cave is a text that is devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge‚ reality and existence. Plato explores the nature of our society by using the illustration of human prisoners who are chained in such a way that they cannot move their heads‚ unable ling them to see the outside world. This allegory is a symbolic representation of what reality can be to one‚ may not be a reality to others. The allegory of the cave commences with the description of a dark cave
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“The Truman Show” and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” writings were astonishingly similar in theory. Even though these two writings were written almost 2500 years apart‚ there were many key concepts alike. In both writings there was an imprisonment of a man from childhood to adulthood. Both of these men had a series of events occur as they grew older‚ which allowed their eyes and mind to see and process the truth of the world and to forget their ignorance. “... I proceed to say‚ go in to compare
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We Should not Grow Too Fond of the Flickering Shadows In “The Allegory of the Cave” and “We Should Grow Too Fond of It: Why We Love the Civil War‚” respectively‚ ancient and modern writers Plato and Drew Gilpin Faust articulate the way one perceives and believes reality. They assert that by shifting a fragmented focus of a subject of study to the subject as a whole‚ one can reach an altered and illuminated understanding of it (Faust 188‚ Plato 298). However‚ where Plato expresses‚ through an enlightening
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Evolution of Revolution in �Pleasantville� The whole city of Pleasantville went through dramatic changes in a small amount of time. People in Pleasantville (especially teens) rebelled against the normal routine life of the city by starting to do drugs‚ having sexual relationships before marriage‚ very odd behaviors and more. David and Jennifer showed their unrecognized and unexpressed sides of themselves that no one in Pleasantville never thought and wouldn�t dare of committing it. David and
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Tiffany Niemiller November 15th‚ 2010 Utopia/Dystopia Dr. Viau Pleasantville Pleasantville is a great movie with many hidden messages. The not so obvious but informative messages are one of best aspects of this nineties flick. The special effects are impressive considering this movie is indeed from the nineties. Pleasantville touches base on many actual conflicts in America and throughout history in the most subtle but blunt way. My favorite thing about this movie is how it takes this blind
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