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    hear are not real knowledge, and that there is another way of finding the truth which is philosophical. The allegory shows how the cave, shadows, game, escape and return of the prisoner symbolized different things a person would know if he/she would even try to look at things differently. The allegory started with three prisoners tied up by a chain inside a cave where the fire behind them is the only source of light. They didn't have any choice but to look at the wall in front of them where they…

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    parties use their resources in order to keep themselves safe. A famous example of this phenomenon is the prisoner’s dilemma. It involves two prisoners, each of whom are given the option to either confess to a crime or not to confess. If neither confesses, each prisoner will be sent to prison for one year. If one confesses and the other stays silent, the prisoner who confessed is set free and the other is sent to jail for three years. If both confess, then they are both sent to prison for two…

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    pass on his craziness to them. Finally, Socrates states, “And if they can get hold of this person who takes it in hand to free them from their chains and to lead them up, and if they could kill him, will they not actually kill him” (Sheehan 5)? The prisoners, like anyone else in the world, were afraid of the freed man because he was preaching about something that they had never experienced. He wanted them to go out of the cave with him and see it for themselves, which would frighten anyone. The…

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    cave, humans trapped as prisoners, and all of our experiences as shadows on a wall. Plato describes the cave like this, “imagine men to be living in an underground cave-like dwelling place, which has a way up to the light along its whole width, but the entrance is a long way up” (Kessler, 440). The prisoners have been there from childhood, and are chained and unable to turn…

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    (448).” Plato’s work is written as a conversation between himself and Socrates. The story describes prisoners in a cave, who have only seen what their captors let them. These captors, or “people with gear,” cast shadows on the walls, which the prisoners interpret as reality. Later, they set one of the prisoners free. After leaving, he discovers that the world is not as he expected. When the prisoner returns to the cave, he tells the others of the world above. I had a similar experience when a…

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    in life, and eventually becomes enlightened. In the cave described by Plato, prisoners are powerless and chained to the wall. The prisoners are missing out on all the things happening behind them, like the fire and the puppets. What they can see and hear are shadows and echoes. When the prisoners tried to get out of the cave, they couldn’t face the real world; they had mistaken appearance for reality. Like the prisoners in the Allegory, my cave was social media. Eliminating social media…

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    In the novel, Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl was a look at what life was like in the Holocaust camp Frankl’s own eyes, who was a prisoner at Auschwitz. Frankl was searching for meaning in his own life. He wanted to figure out what his life meant to him, especially what he went through. A person can suffer something in their life and that person can either sulk and allow their life to not be a good one, or that person can make something out of their suffering and life their life. A…

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    the main hall and the warden gives us instructions. All of the prisoners are divided up into different halls, and we have a designated prison guard. Some prison guards are nice, but usually they are mean. The prisoners that have been here for a long time can get away with more because they suck-up to the warden and the guards. If we do something bad, we go into the isolation room, where we are assigned the work for that day. Each prisoner is assigned their own ID number, and finger print code…

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    and what is seen. It starts off with a long and dark cave, in the cave there are prisoners who, since birth, are tied around the neck and legs, inside a dark cave. The prisoners also have a limited field of vision, because of their ties they should always look forward. There is a light that illuminates their den, emanating a fiery fire behind them, a considerable and elevated distance. For their part, the prisoners have been able to see only shadows of objects projected by the high fire in the…

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    Switch advertisement titled First Look at Nintendo Switch can be analyzed and compared with each other. In Plato’s allegory, prisoners are trapped in the cave and forced to stare at shadows on a wall. When one of the prisoners is freed and exposed to the truth behind the shadows, which is that they are simply objects being manipulated by puppeteers. The freed prisoner is also also introduced to the outdoors, allowing for him to be enlightened. The advertisement is aimed at selling the…

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