The prisoner returns to the cave to share with the other prisoners what he has learned. Plato calls this journey “the turning around of the soul”. The journey that the prisoner took was one of education because the prisoner learned that there was more than just what he could see in the cave. In the movie Dear Frankie, Frankie is the prisoner in the cave and his mother is the one who is showing him the images, although she is only doing so to protect Frankie from the truth that is father abused him. I think that Frankie’s mother should have told him the truth about his father or protected him a different way, instead of lying that his father was writing him.
Plato uses the description of “Darkness” to possibly imply there are false realities that we each have and uses “sunlight” to stand for being enlightened by the “new world”, which is what the released prisoner was to experience. The “cave” is referred to as the “little world” that they are living in. I feel as if it is just a small part of the world that they know V/S the Larger world they should explore They are not free because they don’t know what experiences is outside the cave. They have been sheltered and not allowed to see for themselves what life can really be. The “shackles” are like a symbol of how they all have this same way of living and thinking.
Through these hardships our hero, Odysseus, shows a great amount of restraint that helped protect himself and get him and his men out of sticky situations.. Towards the middle of The Odyssey Odysseus is trapped inside of the Cyclops cave and is trying to figure out how to escape. “I considered whether to go near and draw my sharp sword and drive it into his breast; I could feel about till I found the place where the midriff encloses the liver. But second thoughts kept me back. We should have perished ourselves in that place, dead and done for; we could never have moved the great stone which he had planted in the doorway” (112).
Whilst in prison Andy made a self-distained utopia where he used hope to protect himself from being institutionalized by Shawshank. Many men were driven to insanity, unable to break free from the rules and regulations that were in place. Whereas Andy kept the value of hope so he would not succumb to the temptation of letting the institution consume him. I believe that hope is a powerful moral that everyone should have. As the viewer I realised that prison is a
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Essay One downfall to marriage for a man can be a loss of freedom. But in any situation, including being in an insane asylum, men will seek openness and the thrill of being free. Being committed in a relationship or a ward will bear down on you, but the venturing out is still wanted. In One flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Randall McMurphy and every man in the institution with him want to escape. A man’s drive for independence is very strong, but fear and being committed can bear down on the self-determination before he succeeds.
Basil is like these men also because he feeds images to his son while he thinks he is living the truth, when these men are just as ignorant of the world that lies outside the cave they live in as the men that have been shackled since birth. Segismund’s first moment of freedom is just like when the man is first unshackled and led up to the world outside the cave. He does not really perceive what he is seeing, but merely shields his eyes from the world – in Segismund’s case, by acting savagely. He gets used to it, however, and in the end, only Segismund finally realises the truth as the truth. I feel that Calderon’s “Life Is a Dream” can
It merely is his life — he knows no other. Plato next envisions what would happen if the chained man were released and let out into the world. Plato describes how some people would immediately be frightened and want to return to the cave and their familiar existence, whereas others would look at the sun and finally know reality. In the Cave, I feel the common prisoner best represents me. These prisoners are a symbol of life before we are fully "educated" according to Plato's ideal.
Behind the prisoners there is a fire and the shadows were cast on the wall, which are the only thing the prisoners could see. As a result, they imagine the reality by the shadows and become their beliefs. Then one prisoner gets out the cave, and walks outside to the real world. The bright light from the sun shocked him initially, but later on he learns about the concept of the world, and finally recognizes the sun is the ultimate truth. I believe there are similarities to our learning process, for instance, when I studied chemistry at the high school, many chemical formula and equations which I found very difficult to understand.
a) Who is keeping the prisoners of the matrix ignorant and for what purposes? Are the chains keeping the prisoners of the cave and the prisoners of the matrix in bondage physical or psychological? b) Briefly list the similarities in the five stages of enlightenment for the freed prisoner in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and for Neo in The Matrix. c) What are three key differences between Neo’s enlightenment in The Matrix and Plato’s prisoner? 1a) As Morpheus says: “When the Matrix was first built, there was a man born inside who had the ability to change whatever he wanted, to remake the Matrix as he saw fit.
We live in a world of shadows, where we don't see the reality of ideas. We see the cup that can be broken, the shadows of ourselves. However, it is possible to climb out of the cave, to be released from our shackles, but the process is painful. When the cave slaves (ourselves) climb from the cave (perceive and understand ideas), we see the world for how it should be. We see that ideas are eternal and perfect, even though the physical world crumbles.