In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” from 500 BCE shows us how we believe that shadows are reality, just as Stephen Crane’s “Many Workmen” writing in 1920 shows that pride can blind us to do things that can harm other people. In the same way George Orwell’s Animal Farm written in 1949 show us that greed and power can destroy a society. Plato’s, Crane’s, and Orwell’s allegories show that pride, greed, and denial of the truth can destroy a society.
Pride made the society in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” fail because the prisoners had pride in the shadows they “would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes, and that it was better to not even think of ascending” (Plato, 4). If they hadn’t been blinded by the pride and believed in what the free prisoner have to say then the society might have been able to survive. Just like in Stephen Crane’s “Many Workmen” the …show more content…
It is true in the world that we live in that pride can ruin relationships such as when people use their friends and family to get an achievement or to get something that they want. Previously mentioned that believing in lies can turn us into prisoners people deny the truth when there is something that is hard to take in. Just like when one of the couple finds out that his or her partner has been cheating on them they would deny that it was happening because it makes it easier to believe in shadows then in truth. In the same way greed affect our lives some people says that “you can never have enough” this only leads us to have more then we actually need. Not to mention how people with lots of power would start taxing everyone twice as much as usual because they have the greed for money then they use the tax money for themselves. In other words these are the reasons from the real world to the three authors’ allegories why a society fail from greed, pride, and denial can break
Pride made the society in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” fail because the prisoners had pride in the shadows they “would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes, and that it was better to not even think of ascending” (Plato, 4). If they hadn’t been blinded by the pride and believed in what the free prisoner have to say then the society might have been able to survive. Just like in Stephen Crane’s “Many Workmen” the …show more content…
It is true in the world that we live in that pride can ruin relationships such as when people use their friends and family to get an achievement or to get something that they want. Previously mentioned that believing in lies can turn us into prisoners people deny the truth when there is something that is hard to take in. Just like when one of the couple finds out that his or her partner has been cheating on them they would deny that it was happening because it makes it easier to believe in shadows then in truth. In the same way greed affect our lives some people says that “you can never have enough” this only leads us to have more then we actually need. Not to mention how people with lots of power would start taxing everyone twice as much as usual because they have the greed for money then they use the tax money for themselves. In other words these are the reasons from the real world to the three authors’ allegories why a society fail from greed, pride, and denial can break