Prisoner Ball

in discussion with Glaucon a fellow philosopher. They are discussing a hypothetical situation. There is a group of prisoners who are held captive in the cave chained by the neck and feet. They cannot turn their head or move their bodies. All they can see are images in front of them and the glowing in the back of them from the side. The images are shadows that pass behind the prisoners but they don't know that because they are only allowed to look in one direction. They can hear the sound but do…

concentration camps was terrifying and draining emotionally and physically to the prisoners. The prisoners were always fearful of unnecessary beating and lashes from whips. The Nazi’s changed every person so that they could no longer feel or have emotions. The Nazi’s forced the prisoners to do unnecessary work in terrible conditions. Daily life in the Concentration Camps can be described as absolutely terrifying. The able-bodied prisoners worked in the slave labor complex. To start of the day…

themes will all have relation to the trapped prisoners and the author's view on education. In the beginning of the Allegory we are presented with an image of a cave. Inside the cave there seems to be individuals chained up so the only direction they can see is right before them. Meanwhile, behind the prisoners there is a fire burning casting shadows on the wall in front of them. With that we know that these shadows are they only thing these prisoners know to be reality, which is completely false…

Plato’s mentor. The story begins with three prisoners that were chained, immobilized, and forced to face a wall since birth. They had mistaken the images that were being cast on the wall for reality. They heard echoes which they believe were the voices of the shadows that they had seen. One of the prisoner was then released from the cave. When the prisoner was dragged out he was forced to examine his life and examine the life outside the cave. When the prisoner first steps outside his eyes are…

there are three prisoners that have been imprisoned in a cave for their whole life. They’ve only seen the same wall this whole time and their only source of light would is a fire which is behind them which creates shadows. At one point a prisoner is able to free himself from the chains, when he goes out he realizes that everything he’s been seeing on the walls of the cave are different once outside. He learns what is real and what isn’t and goes back to tell the other prisoners everything he’s…

Cave” Plato describes chained prisoners, that are faced towards a brick wall, with a pit of fire behind them, and in the middle a raised walkway. These prisoners have never seen reality, they have only seen…

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the acquired ability to move beyond fear.” This statement is exemplified in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, because the main character, Ivan Denisovich, is a middle-aged, Soviet prisoner in the infamous Gulag, struggling to persevere throughout the day-to-day challenges presented as a result of confinement in a prison camp. This situation requires him to stay brave under threats, not by fearing nothing, but by going past the feelings of being…

is developed by talking about the sound in the wall and how Edmond feels about it. the theme was also developed because Edmond tried to hide the sound by being loud and talking a lot more than usual. Later in the story he started to think it was a prisoner trying to escape…

fire behind them that shows various shadows from the outside of the cave. These people have been stuck inside of the cave all of their lives until one of the prisoners is set free. Plato begins to explain this thought saying “See what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error” ( Page. 1…

The prisoners knew what they knew, which was the shadows and sounds that were produced in the cave along with whatever they named these shapes. It isn't until the prisoner is freed and sees the sun that they discover "true reality". Because of this enlightenment, the prisoner realizes that everything that they had known was all untrue. This then leads said prisoner wanting to share this enlightenment to those who still remain in the…