Behind the prisoners is a low wall, a walkway and a large fire that lights up the cave. Every once in a while, people walk across the walkway carrying objects and because the walkway is in front of the fire, it causes shadows to be cast against the wall in front of the prisoners – just like shadow puppets. They associate the sounds made by the people casting the shadows against the wall of the cave with the shadow itself because they know nothing better. This is the only reality they have ever known. The prisoners represent ignorant, less educated people who have not yet opened their minds to the philosophical truth – the intelligible realm.
Plato’s Cave Plato believed in the idea of a cave where prisoners were kept and shown images on a wall by fire and people holding up objects. The images that were projected was the only thing the prisoners knew existed. The people holding up the objects control what the prisoners see and what they know. This is the same in the movie Dear Frankie. Frankie is the prisoner being showed the images and his mother is the person holding the objects.
This proves that the prisoners do not know what real is so every one of them has his own definition of what real is; therefore they name what they see according to their opinion. In another experts Plato illustrates how the prisoners would assume mistakenly that what they hear is the sound of what they are viewing. “And suppose further from that the prison had an echo which came from the other side, would they not be sure to fancy when one of the passersby spoke that the voice which they heard came from the passing shadows”(Plato 20). What Plato means is that the prisoners would assume that the voice they hear is coming from the shadows that they are seeing. The prisoners cannot see further than their noise because their thoughts and opinions are controlled; therefore they are lead to make the wrong
Deception is the tool of villains to spread chaos and unhappiness. However, it’s also used by friends to improve each other’s lives in ways that their friends are too stubborn to do without a bit of trickery to push them in the right direction. Whether deception is okay or not depends on the intentions of the deceiver. The play is built on the problems caused by deception, but all the problems are righted by more deceptions. Don John deceived many people throughout the play, but he had bad intentions so things were eventually righted.
For the first time he saw the real world and knew that what he was seeing far beyond the shadows from the cave. Later, he returns to his fellow prisoners in the cave to tell them about the real world. To his astonishment, the prisoners did not believe him and instead, became angry. They believed that the shadows were reality and that the escaped prisoner is crazy for saying otherwise. According to Plato, the outside world represents the world of forms.
Topic: Do you agree with the film's diagnosis that the corporation is a psychopath? Psychopathy in a psychiatry terms refers to a personal disorder. Later the name 'psychopathy' was changed to ' personality disorder' due to its inability to grow any attachment or lack of empathy. It is hard to say if the cause of this mental disorder is genetic or it resulted from a previously experienced trauma. The very important characteristic of a psychopath is their ability to successfully deceive people with their main motive being unrevealed.
Stereotyping and Prejudice in the Movie Crash Crash displays the perfect analogy of how humans deal with life, people, and our own experiences. Physical characteristics and racial differences are two distinguishing factors that separate us. People are afraid to have contact with others unlike themselves, so they rely mostly on stereotypes to determine people’s identities. They are unwilling to leave their comfort zone and they fail to attempt to understand the people around them. Their only opportunity to understand one another is by unintentionally crashing into one another.
Plato’s allegory is identified as a great philosophical writing that is so symbolic. The allegory explains that we may not be able to know the truth about existence if we rely majorly on our own perceptions. Human senses and perceptions are unreliable and imperfect because they make individuals look at things in their own view and not as they truly are. (“Cohen” 2006) According to the Plato’s allegory, humans think and speak without acknowledging and being aware of the realities but their perception and opinion. Plato refers to untutored humans as the chained prisoners who can’t be able to turn their heads in the cave.
In a world full of fears, perhaps the worst one a human being should haveis that to be afraid of his fellow man. The human that should be mostfeared is the one that has Anti-Social Personality Disorder or in laymen’sterms the psychopath. The psychopath is probably the most deviant mindthat exists and treatment is not very successful because there is not a cureor drug to control it. The solution in my mind to control the problem ofsociopaths is to let them live in colonies with each other. Through myresearch I will develop an understanding of this personality disorder andconvince you the reader that my solution might be a viable solution.
We are introduced to” human beings” who have been in this dark underground den since their “early childhood”, and have had their “legs and necks chained” ever since, preventing them from any kind of movement at all (FYR: 6). Since they are not able to turn their heads they can only see shadows which are projected to the walls by fire which is located directly behind them (FYR: 6). They are unaware that they are prisoners because of their present state since childhood. There is a path between the prisoners and the fire. This path is used by people who carry “all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials” on their heads (FYR: 6).