Religion versus the Truth In Plato’s book The Republic, he explains an allegory. He names it the “Allegory of the cave”. Inside of this cave he talks about, are prisoners. The prisoners represent people who have never stepped out of their comfort zone and gained knowledge of new things. For all of the prisoner’s lives they have known of a wall and a small fire.
In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the scenario begins by describing a cave inhabited by three prisoners who have been chained and held immobile since childhood; not only are their limbs held in place, but their heads are also fixed, which compels them to gaze at a wall in front of them. Behind the prisoners is an enormous fire and between the fire and prisoners is a walkway, along which people walk carrying things on their heads including figurines of men and animals. The chained up prisoners interpret the shadows cast on the cave wall to be as real. Eventually a prisoner is released from the cave and permitted to be let out to see the outside world such as a river, the sun, the stars and begins to discover the ultimate truth. When the ‘enlightened’ prisoner returns to the cave and voices to the other prisoners how the shadows are not the reality they seem; he is brutally kicked to death by his fellow prisoners.
Williams uses symbolism to highlight the attributes of each character and what they represent. The play is constructed so that each character has a defining symbol which resembles their personality. Tom is in distress since his father left him to be the male model in the Wingfield family. He has constant conflicts with Amanda due to the conflicting acts of duty and aspires to pursue his dreams of being a poet. When he returns from the movies he mentions the magician’s trick “We nailed him into a coffin and he got out of the coffin without removing one nail.
The book begins with the people at Dave's school finally report Dave and his condition to the authorities. Then he tells us about his past when he still lived in a happy, normal family. Dave had a mother, father and 2 older brothers. While his Father is at work as a fire fighter, his mother turns to alcohol. She starts treating Dave like an animal and makes him lives in the garage and sleeps there too.
Out of love, his parents have made choices to not only protect Paul but to keep him shielded from decision-making knowledge of events, and subjects that they didn’t want him to be exposed to. While his parents may have thought their decisions were more positive then negative, they showed their lack of faith in Paul. They were shielding him from adult information and decisions. They were ultimately limiting his ability to grow-up. Mom made the first choice.
AP Literature and Composition 15 June 2012 “The allegory of the cave” Few people are able to realize the truth before them or the lie that makes them who they are. In the passage “The Allegory of the Cave” Plato starts off telling a story to Glaucon through Socrates, in this passage it contains pure metaphorical meaning about what people know about the truth. Socrates speaks about a cave, this cave contains prisoners these prisoners have benn held captive since childhood and there limbs have been set in place to look at a wall, behind them fire. This fire is used so other men can cast shadows of the walls. Automatically the prisoners start to see little images and start to give it names, but there is a smart prisoners among them and he is the taken out of the cave; he then realizes that everything he thought was real was now nothing.
Mr. Charrington, the owner of the antique shop, was an undercover Thought Police agent who caught Julia and Winston in their secret room they rented out above his shop. The Spies encourage children to report thoughtcrime if they have witnessed it as well. Parsons’ daughter reports him to the Thought Police when he unknowingly talked ill of the Party in his sleep. Surprisingly, Parsons was proud of his daughter since she was so loyal to the Party and, to him, it shows how well he raised her (Orwell 233). These ways of surveillance should never take place.
In these dreams, Teddy's wife informs him that Rachel is still on the island as well as Andrew Laeddis, the man who started the fire which had killed Teddy's wife. Teddy's investigations lead him to believe that the institution is performing human experiments, particularly after he finds Rachel Solando in a cave and speaks with her. This makes him take a journey to a lighthouse where he believes psychosurgery experiments are taking place. Teddy finds Dr. Cawley is waiting for him. The Doctor then explains to Teddy that he is actually Andrew Laeddis.
Examples of the Emersonian self-reliant lifestyle are present in Luke as he is sent to live in a prison camp where he meets strict bosses and becomes close with his roommates. He does all of this while trying to escape to freedom a number of times after his mother’s death. In a society where everyone tries to conform into being someone acceptable, a unique Emersonian individual stands out among the crowd just like Luke Jackson when he first arrives at the prison camp as they discuss reasons of arrival. Luke was arrested for drinking while cutting off the heads of parking meters without any reason except he just wanted to. He accepts the consequences that came with his arrest by leaving for the prison camp.
After being driven away by humans he had come across a hovel next to a cottage. From his hovel he could witness the everyday activities that went on inside the cottage through a crack in the boards. Here he learned about human society, language, and gained an extended education through the history books that he read. After finding Victor’s research notes in his jacket pocket, the creature learns of the disgust his own creator had when building him. Thus realizing how his creator’s abandonment caused a large impact on his life as he had to learn to survive without the aid of a teacher and had no protection from the cruelties that were associated with humanity and loneliness.