Teenager Success
If we are thinking about Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and how the prisoners wouldn't leave the cave and the effects of constantly and mindlessly conforming to what society says, never stopping to find out the reasons behind the events and just believing that what they see and feel is real. They never stop to think that the shadows might be manipulated and changed to distract them from reality. One might conclude that some people are stupid when in fact everything that teenagers feel, say, and do is necessary for them to experience so they will become successful adults.
The first thing to talk about is Plato's "Allegory of the Cave." There are prisoners that are living in a cave and these prisoners are chained and cannot move their heads. These prisoners are facing the wall where they can only see shadows because the fire burning behind them. There is this wall between the prisoners and the fire and this is where the people who are free outside walk by with different objects the prisoners see in the form of shadows on the cave walls. The prisoners believe that these shadows to be real and they give names to the shadows. One day one of the prisoners is able to escape. He's unlocked from the chains and he's able to move his head for the first time. As he walks out …show more content…
The shadows influence the teenagers (prisoners) on how long they will be innocent. How long will they take to grow up? How long will the teenagers (prisoners) stay in the cave before they see the light and walk out of the cave into the sun? Dobbs says this is determined by several factors and it is necessary for these teenagers (prisoners) to be in the cave with a distorted reality so they can learn what's real from what's fake and when they reach the age when they want to leave the cave they will be ready to let the sun shine on them. They are ready to live outside the cave and start their own
If we are thinking about Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and how the prisoners wouldn't leave the cave and the effects of constantly and mindlessly conforming to what society says, never stopping to find out the reasons behind the events and just believing that what they see and feel is real. They never stop to think that the shadows might be manipulated and changed to distract them from reality. One might conclude that some people are stupid when in fact everything that teenagers feel, say, and do is necessary for them to experience so they will become successful adults.
The first thing to talk about is Plato's "Allegory of the Cave." There are prisoners that are living in a cave and these prisoners are chained and cannot move their heads. These prisoners are facing the wall where they can only see shadows because the fire burning behind them. There is this wall between the prisoners and the fire and this is where the people who are free outside walk by with different objects the prisoners see in the form of shadows on the cave walls. The prisoners believe that these shadows to be real and they give names to the shadows. One day one of the prisoners is able to escape. He's unlocked from the chains and he's able to move his head for the first time. As he walks out …show more content…
The shadows influence the teenagers (prisoners) on how long they will be innocent. How long will they take to grow up? How long will the teenagers (prisoners) stay in the cave before they see the light and walk out of the cave into the sun? Dobbs says this is determined by several factors and it is necessary for these teenagers (prisoners) to be in the cave with a distorted reality so they can learn what's real from what's fake and when they reach the age when they want to leave the cave they will be ready to let the sun shine on them. They are ready to live outside the cave and start their own