Cave art also known as parietal art‚ in the Upper Paleolithic from approximately 40‚000 – 10‚000 years BP is considered a glimpse into the imagination of modern humans. It can be used as a way to record the symbolic development of early humans giving us a hint to when the behaviour started and more importantly why it was created. This essay will demonstrate the different theories on why and how cave paintings could have been used‚ why it is more prevalent in some areas such as South Western France
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An allegory is a story‚ poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning‚ typically a moral or political one. Arthur Miller’s novel‚ the Crucible is a fictional play that centers around the Salem Witch Trials. The novel can also be classified as an example of an allegory. The allegorical meaning of the Crucible is that it can be a representation of the Red Scare‚ the HUAC‚ and McCarthyism. The Red Scare was the promotion of fear of the potential rise of communism after World
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Explain Plato’s Analogy of the Cave Plato’s analogy of the cave begins with prisoners who are captured at birth and chained tightly in a cave with no natural daylight so they can only face and look at the wall in front of them. Since these prisoners have always been like this they know nothing else. They have limited knowledge to only what they can ‘see’ and oppose any other ideas. They are trapped like this and cannot go beyond the surface. The prisoners here are supposed to represent us. It
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Portrayals of prehistory in popular books‚ films‚ and television programs are sometimes more interesting for what they tell us about contemporary life than for what they reveal about ancient cultures. In the Clan of the Cave Bear (and the books that followed it) a doomed Neanderthal race is hopelessly outclasses by physically modern‚ culturally advanced "Others." Such portrayals could be labeled as accurate or inaccurate based on current findings. Whether or not these primitive peoples had belief
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ARIEL and ALLEGORY IN THE TEMPEST The temptation to regard The Tempest as an allegory has proved irresistible to critics‚ although opinions differ on what it might be an allegory of‚ and what the principal figures might represent. In this essay I wish to discuss the character of ariel‚ who has received less attention than either Caliban or Prospero. If The Tempest is an allegory then each of its characters should fulfil some representative function. Prospero is generally associated with the
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In literature alone‚ there are many stories that have been categorized as allegories due to messages or lessons that are implied in the writing. By definition‚ an allegory is a something that has a hidden or symbolic meaning. Of course they are not just limited to stories; allegories can also be expressed in the form of a poem‚ a picture‚ or a movie. The Crucible‚ written by Arthur Miller‚ is a good example of an allegory for it tells of a significant event in history in which a small town of Massachusetts
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Paleolithic era of hunting and gathering. For example‚ when art historians look at the cave paintings in the Lascaux Cave in France‚ some believe what they are seeing is a religious ritual where the hunters are asking the gods or deities for a successful hunt. They base this conclusion by comparing the size and detail of the animals vs. the smaller size and lack of detail in the people. When you look at the cave painting this does make sense. Here you have sticklike small men shooting arrows into
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In the video “The Cave” by Provided there where prisoners who sat at the bottom of a cave without any outside contact and every day they would see and hear people and animals walk on the bridge and never know what the outside world was like. One prisoner got released and saw the world for the first time and was so excited he had to go tell his friends in the cave but when he went to go tell them they didn’t know who he was or what he was saying so they never knew about the outside world. To me‚ the
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The Allegory in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Alice in wonderland is an adventurous book full of mystery‚ conflicts‚ and surprisingly allegory. Alice goes through trails‚ revelations‚ and at one point even gets accused of “being the wrong Alice.” In this story‚ Alice believes that she is dreaming and having a weird one at that‚ but in reality she is not really dreaming. Alice is really trying to find herself and with that she is portraying the conflicts in her life through the world of
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The allegory used in Maus helps me to understand the Holocaust more. Portraying the Jews as mice‚ the Nazis as cats and the Poles as pigs‚ has made the story easier to follow and understand. On page 138 there is a clear example of the allegory used throughout the entire book. When Vladek and Anja try to hide they put on pig masks to disguise themselves. This shows how the use of animals is very clever‚ as the reader can tell straight away that they are actually Jewish pretending to be Polish. The
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