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.
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.
Yet Dorothy’s goal in going to Oz is so the Wizard can help her get back home. Dorothy is also very black-and-white when it comes to opinions. She either believes all witches are bad, or that all witches are good. And yet she is still tricked by Glinda. She never really makes her own decisions.
They would win favor in the eyes of their God. Good and evil is present in our film and literature today. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum explores the same good versus evil theme that is in the epic Beowulf. Dorothy, the main character in The Wizard of Oz, is the good character and the Wicked Witch of the West is the evil character. Dorothy is on her quest to find her way home while she fights evil along her path eventually killing the evil witch.
Topic: In Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" from his Republic, the vivid imagery of escaping the slavery of our shackled understanding of the world is quite pronounced. Do you agree that escaping the cave is to be desired? What can or should you do to pull yourself or those around you from the cave? The Cave in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” represents the world that we live in as we See it and believe it to be in our own reality. 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.
At its core, Ella Enchanted is a novel that champions female independence; Levine expresses this by granting her main character the gift of agency, exposing the patriarchal alienation that underlies the convention of romantic folklore, and by changing the standard of what it really means to live “happily ever after.” Ella Enchanted is the story of Eleanor (Ella) from Frell who, at birth, is given a “gift” in the form of a magic spell by an amusingly misguided fairy named Lucinda. The spell dictates that Ella obeys every direct command she is given, and that she must also keep this condition a secret. It is in this way that Levine addresses the “burden of obedience” suffered by many of the women in similar tales before Ella (Carbone 1). The difference between these women and Ella, is that Ella’s predecessors don’t seem to have a problem with their own acquiescent nature. According to Mirsadjadi, Levine wanted to
The prisoners in this analogy are meant to represent normal people, with their false knowledge/opinions being the shadows. The cave itself is mean to be the physical realm (the world as we see it). The sun is used to represent the form of good (the source of all things); the escaped prisoner’s journey is his ascension into enlightenment, where as the prisoners return to the cave is when the prisoner has already been enlightened and has gained the knowledge. Socrates, student of Plato, describes how he thinks the prisoner would be feeling and thinking during the prisoner’s journey through out the Cave analogy. Socrates describes the prisoners experience as starting out as fear and confusion as he starts to realise that the shadows on the walls are not reality.
It is difficult to imagine what Plato meant by the “Form” of something so he created the “Analogy of the Cave”. The analogy begins in the cave. It represents the physical world that we live in. Inside the cave, three prisoners, facing a blank wall, are bound by their necks, arms and legs to stop them turning around. This is the only life they have ever known.
Audiences traditionally perceive Cinderella as obedient, compliant and typically feminine. Expectations are challenged when Danielle is contracted as tomboyish, independent and with an uncharacteristic streak of rebellion. Danielle demonstrates her strength and resourcefulness when she “rescues” Prince Henry by bundling him over her shoulders and stringing him purposefully away. In a key scene, a gypsy poses the challenge, “My Lady, you can have anything you can carry.” Clearly, the gender roles have been manipulated for a modern audience’s pleasure. Prince Henry does not characteristically display the charming qualities of a fairy-tale prince.
With the idea of spirits going to the bath house, ran by a witch named Yubaba, is a dream like situation. Chihiro comes into a world of creatures and monsters that all have a duty to the human world. To a small child such as Chihiro this is only what can happen in ones dreams, but the reality of all of this is that she is awake and the only way she can get out is if she can grow enough as a person to figure out how to save herself and the others from Yubaba. When Chihiro has to make the choice of staying at the bath house, like she is told to do to get her mother and father back, or to go to a witch’s house to get something to help her dear friend, Hauk. This choice that she must make is a real conscious decision that can happen in real life, thus giving conscious thought, but her friend is a River Spirit;