Prisoner Ball

The Zimbardo Prison Study revealed how prisoners and prison guards transitioned into predefined roles, behaving in a way that was thought to be a requirement, rather than using their own reasoning and beliefs. Zimbardo wanted to communicate how dehumanizing and disengaging them from social and moral values can affect an individual engaged in a highly stressful situation and what happens when identity and pride are taken away as a result of their lives being controlled. After watching the…

divider are different statues, which are controlled by another gathering of individuals, lying beyond anyone's ability to see behind the halfway divider. As a result of the flame, the statues cast shadows over the divider that the prisoners are looking at. Since the prisoners have never known reality other than those shadows, they believe the shadows to be the truth, and if the voices from…

The Cave Allegory This allegory is used to convey Plato’s attempt to explain what the nature of reality is. It displays the role of the masses, the educated, and reality. The setting takes place in a cave. The people within the cave are chained in such a way that they can only see the cave walls. Behind them are these strange figures that would carry objects and walk behind the people. Because there was a fire, the people could see their shadows. Sometimes the figures speak so they thought that…

people manage to see the light through a life changing event. Gandhi’s life changing event is similar to both the protagonist Siddhartha, in Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and the released prisoners in The Allegory of the Cave by Plato. Therefore Mahatma Gandhi’s life parallels with that of Siddhartha and the prisoners: he was born in a life of luxury and “darkness” yet realized the true pain and, in the process, becomes one with the world. At the beginning, both Gandhi and Siddhartha are blinded…

"But I believe you've more information to share before we're truly done with you," The frowns on her guards' faces upset her. They must consider it foolish, what with the lengthy interrogation the prisoner had already gone through and to no avail. Worse yet, they could believe her to be favoring Meike simply due to their long-standing relationship, hesitating to execute an old friend and postponing it based on emotion. "You should be grateful for my…

The literary phenomenon of an allegory is an underlying message, or hidden meaning, within a work. It is not directly stated, but revealed in symbolic representation throughout the work. Two examples of allegories are Plato's "The Myth of the Cave" and Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull. These two allegories have different meanings, but they have similarities within their storylines. In "The Myth of the Cave," a group of people are "living in an underground cave" and "have their legs…

“Tell me if they're too tight.” Derek said as he did the last things for tonight. “It's okay.” You might think we're going to do some dirty things. But no. Derek was helping me with my first full moon. I've known Derek since we were in diapers. Our parents already knew each other before our birth. And yes, my parents got to know a lot about werewolves. Maybe that's why they weren't mad at me when I asked them if I could get the bite. Of course they weren't happy with it in the first place, but…

traded in his daily rations to a Kopa to get Yanek a new job outside the camp (Gratz, 73). Uncle Moshe understood that Yanek was young, had no parents, and that he was his only hope to for getting through this nightmare. It wasn’t just about the prisoners having hope for themselves but also helping others. When Yanek was in the death march, he saw a boy that couldn’t stay on both feet anymore due to the cold that was making him weak. He knew that if the Kopa’s saw the boy they would shoot him…

their own "cave". The people that are in Plato's' cave, the prisoners, have always been there. They all have their legs and necks chained and cannot move. They cannot turn their necks or bodies to look around them. The cave is very dark and there is a fire in the distance. There is a wall in front of them and men are frequently carrying tools and vessels and various shaped objects with them. This creates different shaped shadows for the prisoners to view. All that…

Socrates: Let me pose a situation to you, Pentheus; imagine there are people in a cave. These people have been there since childhood, with their bodies shackled so that they can only see that which is right in front of them. They are unable to turn their heads, and know no world except that which is in front of them. Pentheus: I can imagine this, of course. Socrates: Now imagine that there is a fire roaring behind them, and that this fire casts a light onto the wall of the cave in front of them.…