Samuel Polanco
AP English
Mr. Alan
January 29, 2015 Facing Your Truth When it comes to the aspect of reality in life, several people find it a challenge to adapt or deal with. Philosopher and writer Plato “When we start facing the truth, the process may be frightening and many people run back to their old lives. But, if you continue to seek the truth, you will eventually be able to handle it.” Reality mirrors the element of the truth, and the truth sometimes isn’t what people want to hear. Both positive, and negative outcomes can emerge from the grasp of the truth. Sometimes hiding from a frightening truth seems ideal, which is what the characters like Pecola and Claudia did in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. Occasionally, after discovering …show more content…
What was similar to Pecola was how she tries to handle the mistreatment of her skin color with curiosity. Claudia would receive the same doll every christmas. According to morrison “the gift was always a big, blue-eyed Baby Doll.”(Morrison 20). Claudia received the same present every year, which can show the idealistic reputation that the specific gift had. According to Morrison, “i fingered the face, wondering at the single-stroke eyebrows; picked at the pearly white teeth stuck like two piano keys between red bowline lips. Traced the turned-up nose, poked the glassy blue eyeballs, twisted the yellow hair.” (Morrison 21). Claudia was searching for the reason that dolls image is so popularly favored. The authors use of imagery was shown when the dolls teeth were explained to look ‘pearly white’ and ‘like two piano keys’. The authors use of words made it seem that the doll was given an attractive image in Claudia’s eyes. Instead of accepting that she was different from this image, Claudia chose to try to become like someone who she wasn’t. According to Morrison “But I could examine it to see what it was that all the world said was lovable.”(Morrison 21). Claudia was described to search for something the doll has, that she is missing in the aspect of appearance. This relates to Plato's statement because it shows how another character in The Bluest Eye …show more content…
The authors mentioning of ‘I would not have come here’ proves Plato’s statement to be false because Oedipus is not able to handle the truth. As a result of the gaining of the truth about his life, Oedipus stabbed his eyes out, which shows that he definitely did not handle the truth. The irony was present, because Oedipus believed and searched for the truth in hopes for a better outcome, and the outcome was exactly the opposite. As a reader, it was expected, which revealed that the protagonist did not know what he was going to face from the discovery of the truth. He wanted to escape the sight of his truth, and made a painful mistake in order to try his best to avoid the truth. Plato's statement is therefore false because of Sophocles’ ironic story of Oedipus and the self-realization of his
AP English
Mr. Alan
January 29, 2015 Facing Your Truth When it comes to the aspect of reality in life, several people find it a challenge to adapt or deal with. Philosopher and writer Plato “When we start facing the truth, the process may be frightening and many people run back to their old lives. But, if you continue to seek the truth, you will eventually be able to handle it.” Reality mirrors the element of the truth, and the truth sometimes isn’t what people want to hear. Both positive, and negative outcomes can emerge from the grasp of the truth. Sometimes hiding from a frightening truth seems ideal, which is what the characters like Pecola and Claudia did in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. Occasionally, after discovering …show more content…
What was similar to Pecola was how she tries to handle the mistreatment of her skin color with curiosity. Claudia would receive the same doll every christmas. According to morrison “the gift was always a big, blue-eyed Baby Doll.”(Morrison 20). Claudia received the same present every year, which can show the idealistic reputation that the specific gift had. According to Morrison, “i fingered the face, wondering at the single-stroke eyebrows; picked at the pearly white teeth stuck like two piano keys between red bowline lips. Traced the turned-up nose, poked the glassy blue eyeballs, twisted the yellow hair.” (Morrison 21). Claudia was searching for the reason that dolls image is so popularly favored. The authors use of imagery was shown when the dolls teeth were explained to look ‘pearly white’ and ‘like two piano keys’. The authors use of words made it seem that the doll was given an attractive image in Claudia’s eyes. Instead of accepting that she was different from this image, Claudia chose to try to become like someone who she wasn’t. According to Morrison “But I could examine it to see what it was that all the world said was lovable.”(Morrison 21). Claudia was described to search for something the doll has, that she is missing in the aspect of appearance. This relates to Plato's statement because it shows how another character in The Bluest Eye …show more content…
The authors mentioning of ‘I would not have come here’ proves Plato’s statement to be false because Oedipus is not able to handle the truth. As a result of the gaining of the truth about his life, Oedipus stabbed his eyes out, which shows that he definitely did not handle the truth. The irony was present, because Oedipus believed and searched for the truth in hopes for a better outcome, and the outcome was exactly the opposite. As a reader, it was expected, which revealed that the protagonist did not know what he was going to face from the discovery of the truth. He wanted to escape the sight of his truth, and made a painful mistake in order to try his best to avoid the truth. Plato's statement is therefore false because of Sophocles’ ironic story of Oedipus and the self-realization of his