I feel this is the interpretation of man from his birth. The cave represents the town or village of birth for the person (prisoner). The prisoners are the people born into and raised in this village. The chains around their neck and legs are the limits of the village from which the children have yet to venture past.…
Plato uses his Cave to show that the reality we are all use to and accustomed to is just a sham. It can often be a difficult journey to find God and have him in your life. The chains can represent the evil that holds man back from the path to glory. We all like to believe we are good and the prisoners new no other reality and felt what they see is the truth. They cannot accept that there is something better than the life they live. These evils are what we meant to avoid and to escape from evil. I personally view the prisoner as one…
Lord Byron’s dramatic poem, Manfred, written during 1816-1817 can be interpreted in many ways. Manfred represents Byron’s vision of the Byronic hero, who is seen superior to humans, but rejects the comfort brought to him by religious representatives. Throughout this poem, it is clear that he feels regret and guilt, to whom and for what it is, is another question. Some believe that his guilt is directed toward his lover, Astarte. The theme that seems to be most apparent in this poem is the guilt he proclaims throughout and how death is possibly is only solution.…
Because the film’s title is Rear Window, this specific window indeed holds some significance. One could say the window hides Jeffries from the real world, as he is confined to his own apartment. While on the other hand, it could be…
In the beginning of the story when Jekyll has relative control over Hyde his windows in his home are described as ‘Always shut and clean’. This is a reflection of Jekyll and shows how organised and civilised he is in the beginning and that his hold…
The first thing the narrator observes as he arrives to his old school friends house is the “vacant and eye-like windows” which unsuspectingly symbolizes to the narrator the depression and void that s/he will find out lives within the rest of the Ushers. When…
When the prisoner has finally come to understand what he has been missing out on, he pities the other prisoners who are locked up. The prisoner says that it is, “better to be a poor slave of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their manner.” (870) Going back to that unenlightened way of living would be a torture. It’s clear that to the freed prisoner a world of shadows is of little value in comparison to the world of light. What follows from this conclusion is that to understand the world only through our senses is like being caged. To experience true freedom is to understand the world…
This passage shows how he was wanting so badly to see the good, but yet the prison walls lock in the darkness that follows him. He struggles everyday…
The prisoners have been chained since childhood, and can only look from side to side. Between the fire and the prisoners, higher than the prisoners, there is a road with a low wall built alongside it, similar to the screen set in front of a puppet master. People, and animals, often walk along the road, sometimes talking and other times silent.…
The Analogy relates to Plato’s Theory of Forms, which explains how the forms possess the ultimate reality. The World of Forms is the unseen world in which everything is constantly evolving and changing. The Analogy however, is the attempt to enlighten the prisoners and explain the philosophers place in society. He uses the story to explain the need to question everything like a philosopher does in order to distinguish between the unreal, physical world and the real spiritual world lit by the sun. The sun is the ultimate good and Plato gives the name of good the demiurge.…
According to Plato, the chained people represent the uneducated and uninformed men in the society (Warmington 119). Behind them and directly in front of the fire, people walk on a raised platform, thus projecting the shadows and echoes on the blank wall. These are the leaders in the today society and those other people in positions of influence who want the masses to believe in their point of view. The shadows projected include religion and political rule in the society. The philosopher escapes from the cave and is able to see the reality of the universe (Adeloitte 32). One could equate Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme with this as he projected unrealistic profits to investors…
Another interpretation is when the prisoners are trapped inside the cave the prisoners represent humanity ,who don’t know what reality is, because they think reality is just what they can see (the shadows) which is really not reality at all it is mere representation of the truth The prisoners symbolize those of a sensible world unwilling to see or face reality. In their ignorance the prisoners hide away…
“Bartleby the Scrivener” and “A Sorrowful Woman” are two drastically different stories, however, they share many commonalities. The main characters in each story are constantly enabled by those around them, allowing them to further their seclusion from society, to the point at which readers struggle to empathize with them. In both, “A Sorrowful Woman” by Gail Godwin, and “Bartleby the Scrivener” by Herman Melville, there are three main themes: passive resistance, mental illness, and isolation. These themes are often furthered in each story through the use of symbols and epigraphs.…
Truman later discovers that he could not freely make his own decisions. In the Plato allegory of the cave, the prisoner is symbolic. He represents a philosopher who is in the darkness. The escape of the prisoner from the cave represents the philosopher's journey to gain knowledge. The shackles of the prisoners in the cave and chains on their legs represent the limitations and challenges that face us as we try to gain knowledge. The shadows that the prisoners see can be compared to the fake reality that is Truman's life .…
The cave represents the people who believe that knowledge comes from what we see and hear in the world.The prisoners represent an ignorant, unenlightened, and narrow society. This would comprise of those who have not yet understood the meaning of life.The prisoners are without sun, without a higher understanding, and have limited understanding.Those who are chained represent all human beings who have been forced to think in one particular way; The chains are symbolic of limitations that pull us away from the truth. These chains permit the prisoners only to see shadows replicated by a fire behind them. These chained prisoners are restricted to only what the fire allows them to see – their own perceptions. Because the prisoners cannot see what or who is behind them, they accept those shadows as reality.Their full understanding arises only when the shackles are unbound and can comprehend clearly. The cave shadows are ambiguous and unclear, distorted, without any true form. Plato successfully utilizes the shadows to demonstrate those who cannot see an accurate, clear reality. The prisoners are seeing the shadows as a reality of the visible world, yet their reality are flawed and not the true form. The shadows symbolize what we observe with our senses, and not with our mental understandings – they may well be misrepresentations but we are incapable of…