Reality Shows Essay

people who have views which are different from the majority and may be considered as a threat to the community. In this case, the “witches” were the communists. This 1950s “witch hunt” was the real political allegory that Arthur miller was trying to show. He uses a real witch hunt to compare with a metaphorical one. The Salem witch hunts were an unfair way to judge different groups of people, a popular trend that also occurs in modern days. These two historical events have many similarities; for…

In Plato’s “ Allegory of the Cave,” Plato describes the cave as very dark with chained prisoners in front of a fire observing shadow of things. The shadows are the only “reality” they know. Outside the cave, there is “light” and the “truth”. A prisoner in the cave wanted freedom. But the prisoners could not get out. They were trap in the cave and all they could see were shadow illusions of people, animals and trees. So one day, one of the prisoners was granted freedom. He went out to the real…

Nagel brings up fascinating questions in his book, “What does it all mean?” Do we live in the real world? Is the real world only as real as we perceive it to be? What is the meaning of life? First, we will explore our perceptions of the ‘real’ world and try to answer if that world is truly there or in our minds. Secondly, let’s say the world is real and everyone else in it, when we think about the question of the mind and the brain; did we have that thought in our brain? Or was it in our souls?…

Cozy mysteries and great detective mysteries both show us that people will believe what their eyes see, but to find the truth you need to learn that the physical can be deceiving. It is human nature for us to look at what is presented to us, and believe it. For example, in Agatha Christy’s “The Blue Geranium” and Jacquez Futrelle’s “The Problem of Cell 13” both show characters being misled by the clues left behind. “The Blue Geranium” shows us how clues can be placed to lead you away from…

Whether we like it or not education has play a significant role in individual’s life. “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato and “Learning to Read” by Malcolm X, both articles talk about a man who got enlightened, while he was in prison. In Plato’s article “The Allegory of the Cave,” one of the former prisoners have the privilege to go out from the cave to experiment new things as actual objects and the light. At the beginning, would be hard to the prisoner to get use to the journey since he…

complicated, false cyber-based reality. Before the character Thomas Anderson, also known as Neo, finds said realism in the film, Morpheus, the leader of a group of rebels, presents him a very intriguing question, “Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?” (Wachowski). This question addresses immediately the issue of reality that brings into…

people always seem to believe that there is only black and white or good and bad. However, this does not seem to be the case in real life situations. This book seems to be an incredible opportunity to experience complex stories that expose the harsh reality of life. In the book, Krik Krak, a series of short stories, the author Danticat utilizes juxtaposition to create complex characters that in return create an overall feeling of mixed emotions. The specific examples that best display complex…

perception, and the external world. One of the topics, “How do we know anything?” relates to what exists in one’s mind, if it even exists and whether we view ourselves to be the only thing that exist and everything being just a figment of our own reality and imagination. “Free will” is argued to be either true or false, depending on one’s beliefs about determinism, believing that any choice we make is inevitable making us question if free will even exists. Is it all in our heads? “If you…

In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, there are three prisoners who live in a world where they are chained in a cave. There are puppeteers who cast shadows onto the wall of the cave and the prisoners construct the shadows as reality.One out of the three prisoners breaks free and adventures the outsides of cave. After adapting to a lifestyle where you mainly see darkness; the prisoner is blinded by the sun and agitated about the outside world of the cave. The shadows that the puppeteers casted inside…

Metaphysics is a diverse area in the field of philosophy distinguished by two types of autopsy. One of the autopsies is to give the overview of the analysis into the nature of genuineness, arguing the facts about the values demonstrating to anything that appears to be genuine. The second autopsy pursues to reveal what is eventually genuine, regularly giving solutions in severe difference to the daily knowledge of the universe. From the movie “The Matrix,” the storyline behind its filming lies…