Frederick Douglass Learning To Read Analysis

The word enlightenment is a very broad word that usually means, ‘happiness, truth, reaching full potential’. However, it turns out new knowledge doesn’t come easily without the pains, rupture, awkwardness, and estrangements that come when seeking superiority. There are two main pieces, “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato and “Learning to Read” by Frederick Douglass, that describe how overcoming obstacles and hardships of losing love ones will come when reaching towards enlightenment. These difficulties attract to the change that you decide to take, which will be unaccepted by the people who surround you. Making you feel alone and weak, regretting to every have been enlighten.
First, Douglass’ enlightenment of learning the alphabet gives him hope to building a stronger literacy for a better life than that of a slave. Then, he improves in his literacy and finds his enlightenment to then feel sad and tormented. For example, Douglass says, “I often found myself regretting my own existence, and wishing myself dead; and but for the hope of being free” (191). On one hand, Douglass
If you are still a person that is okay with confront like the prisoners who didn’t leave the cave. Then, you won’t be able to be at peace with both, and this will create polarization between these two strategies. And if you are not able to keep both strategies, you will not reach you enlightenment to its full potential.
To conclude, we all want to reach our goals of being a doctor, teacher, entrepreneur, or even being a good parent. Getting to a certain potential of doing a specific action, or getting a certain position can be challenging for most. However, this pain are hardships that you experience that are part of the process to becoming better and leveling up. With the “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato and “Learning to Read” by Frederick