The Prisoner

multiple suggestions on how to live an authentic and purposeful life in Plato’s “The Simile of the Cave” from The Republic. In the opening paragraph of the allegory, it begins painting a picture of prisoners who are tightly secured within their chains. “In this chamber are men who have been prisoners there since they were children, their legs and necks being so fastened that they can only look straight ahead of them and cannot turn their heads.” Through reading the description that these men in…

There is only a fire behind them to illuminate a wall like screen in front of them. Behind the wall are the puppeteers who have puppets and the prisoners hold artifacts. All the prisoners see are the shadows from the screen, so they are forced to believe that that is the reality of the world since they have not seen anything else different. Eventually one prisoner is set free to view the puppets and the fire. At first the light nearly blinds him, but after his eyes adjust he can now see clearly…

Today was a slow day, but very education. I am finding that out that my time at CTLC is better spent watching than actually doing things. When I walked into the double door facility I seen the usual faces, and I greeted them as I made my way back to my little small cubical office. When I arrived at my office about two minutes after greeting several people, I noticed a small green sticky note that was on my desk from the day prior. The note was to remind me about the Homeless Alliance meeting at…

In their work, Plato and Paulo Freire offer harsh critiques of education. Plato compares people to prisoners in a cave where no knowledge is circulating, and Freire refers to the “Banking Concept of Education” where teachers put their thoughts and information into students’ minds much like depositing money into a bank. Instead of this money being of value by benefitting students, Freire and Plato acknowledge oppressive teaching styles which result in the value declining because the students are…

Sometimes when the elevator went out the prisoners being put to death would be walked through our hall. The looks on their faces would always seem so broken. Completely unexplained Ashna would beg to sit with them on their last days. When she came back she would sleep until the day they were brought…

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…

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…

about it, for example in a cave there are shadows, the struggles in leaving the cave, the sunlight from reaching the end of the tunnel, just being your own prisoner and not knowing on how to leave. As Plato sees…

On Redemption A prisoner steps out of his musty cell, squinting at the bright sunlight. As he takes his first breath of the free air, his spirits soar. However, there is a lingering question on his mind, like an itch that cannot properly be placed. Though he has served his time, can he ever really redeem himself, or is he destined to die with the weight of his crimes upon him? He shrugs and walks on, as many before him have done. Yet he still struggles with this age-old question. So, too, does…

The quality of wisdom is one that has a debatable connotation. While it is true that most people would associate it with feelings of peace, happiness, or enlightenment, I have come to look at wisdom as a source of unrest. Observing wisdom and its cause of human disturbance in literary works such as Antigone, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, and Genesis, it is evident that wisdom is the direct cause of anxiety rather than the feelings of peace or enlightenment that are generally associated with the…