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 in which a number of prisoners have been held from birth. Their bodies are bound so that they cannot escape‚ they can
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Value of human life Type of essay: Narrative Tone: Passive‚ weary‚ symphatic Intended Audience: Adults. Summary of essay. The story is about the prisoner who is brought out of his cell for hanging. The writer realice the importance of life and think that the concept of hanging is wrong it is not a true solution for stopping crimes. When the prisoner is hanged everyone started chattering with each other Rhetorical Strategy (include example from text) Imagery “A a ellow tinfoll‚ was slanting
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It says that such a dramatic escape is unlikely‚ because the Chevalier could have asked politically well-connected friends to offer his jailers a bribe to free him. However‚ according to the professor‚ other prisoners who had even more powerful political connections were never able to bribe their way to freedom and that prisons records indicate that soon after the Chevalier’s escape‚ the ceiling of his room in the prison had to be repaired. The professor thinks
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something. For instance‚ in the movie the Matrix Neo has no clue that everything he is experiencing is a dream. But when he is told the truth his knowledge grows which is exactly what Plato proclaims in his writing to the republic. He claims that as the prisoners who have been chained in the cave since childhood begin to ascend their knowledge expands. And in Descartes writing the meditation he begins to realize that things are not what they seem. The thing he thought he once knew he is learning are not true
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of the Cave” by Plato‚ there are prisoners that are chained up in a cave with a fire behind them so that they can only face the wall and see the shadows of objects passing by the cave. They have never seen the world outside of the cave. One prisoner is then unchained and freed to the outside world. He then sees the different world and goes back to the cave‚ trying to describe the spectacular things that he saw to his fellow prisoners. However‚ the other prisoners do not believe him because they can
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was a vision that Plato described to Socrates about prisoners chained facing a wall of a cave so that they could not move. Chained there for their entire lives they could not see themselves or each other all they could see was the cave wall and shadows. Fire burned above their heads and behind them. Between the fire and the prisoners a wall lined path where people walk and carry vases‚ statues‚ and other artifacts on their heads. The prisoners could hear echoes of voices and could see the shadows
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the way. The first entry of the allegory has Socrates describing a cave in which there are prisoners. The prisoners have limited sight since they are chained at the neck and legs and can see in only one direction. There is light from a fire which allows the prisoners to see shadows on the wall form passing men. My interpretation of this starts at the beginning. Actually one line which speaks of the prisoners; …here they have been from their childhood… (Plato (interpretation by Benjamin Jowett)‚ 2012)
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out of their sight. Secondly‚ when the Grady and Rawlins are arrested‚ they meet up with Blevins in prison. They wonder why Blevins is in prison‚ and he does not want to reveal‚ so Grady asks one of the prisoners. The prisoner tells Grady he killed three men in which Blevins claims the prisoner is lying. And then Blevins says‚ “I walked up behind him and snatched it out of his belt. That’s what I done. And shot him” (159). John Grady continues to ask what he had done. Rawlins replies‚ “Time I got
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self-awareness among the prisoners? The prison camp used social alienation techniques to bring about the destruction of self-awareness among the prisoners. They treated each prisoner like animals and did not acknowledge them as human beings. The ability to cater to basic human functions as we do was taken away. This degradation broke the prisoners down and stripped them of their personal traits. This kind of treatment worked well in a group-style setting with other prisoners experiencing the same
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about the allegory of the cave by Plato. It explains the nature of reality and represents our desire to seek for the “light” which is our deeper understanding of the truth and the betterment of ourselves. The chained men are considered to be the prisoners. They are being nurtured by lies and forced to live a life accepting false reality as truth. Furthermore‚ people inside the cave had no choice but to accept and consider what they see and experience is true and real because they are being deceived
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