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.
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).
Ristad seems to have a very biased tone throughout the paper, although he makes and effort to cover it all up at the end of the paper by expressing his concern and love for the prisoners, and only wanting what is best for them. He writes about how the government is hiding what occurs behind prison walls. He accuses them
This is the only life they have ever known. They watch shadows projected onto the wall by individuals carrying objects or leading animals in front of a fire causing these shadows to be cast. The prisoners try to predict the movements, and associate the sounds made by the individuals with the shadows, as this is all they know. They
After having set eyes on the sun, this man cannot go back to the cave, to the dark, and see the world as he used to before he started contemplating the truth. This man is Segismund. The limit of Segismund’s world is the walls of his cells; what he knows of the world, he has learned from Clotaldo the jail keeper. Basil, the King of Poland and Segismund’s father, can be likened to the people behind the wall in front of the fire; they are presenting images of what they deemed was acceptable to show the men in front of them just like Basil did to Segismund. 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.
Soon there after, the basic ground rules were set between guards and prisoners. Two people in particular stood out to me the most, Clay Ramsey, one of the experiment prisoner also known as” prisoner 416”, and experiment prison guard, Dave Eshlemen. Dave established his role as a prison guard by “stirring things up”, as he put it, making it difficult for prisoners by calling them names of making fun of them. He was also known for waking prisoners in the middle of the night or just while they were sleeping then making them do household chores work like cleaning a toilet or
One weakness of qualitative data would be that it is continuously different, which makes it difficult to analyse. For example, Reicher and Haslam found that a percentage of the guards were happy to exhume authority and power, whereas the other percentage felt completely the opposite. This sometimes overpowered the use of being a team. • Describe how your chosen study was conducted. Reicher and Haslam worked with the BBC who built a fake prison environment at Elstree Studios, the BBC then filmed and broadcasted the study.
The “shackles” are like a symbol of how they all have this same way of living and thinking. Each of them have been tied together in this world of not knowing the life outside of the “cave”. The thought often scares those without the ability to understand that reality is what one may make of it when embracing the situations you may encounter daily. (The Republic) Yes, I do believe it is important for people to escape “the Cave”. According Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" The chained man was suddenly released from his bondage and let out into the world.
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.