Prisoner of war

two meanings, one of which is literal ; there are prisoners in a cave, behind them is a fire and in between them and that fire is a passage. On the whole length of that passage way there is a wall high enough to hide the people who walk there but not high enough to hide the objects those people are holding above their heads. The prisoners can see the objects’ shadows and nothing else and therefore believe those shadows are beings. When a prisoner is released, he cannot see the fire or the…

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…

In the Book, I found Irony in the situation of prisoners becoming guards, how whites were expected in prison to do what southern society saw a slave work; and the irony of just when human bloodlust was considered perfectly okay, and when that line was considered crossed, or barbaric.…

the idea of the unknown when escaping, the prisoner exhibit that he can go beyond the limits of his freedom by escaping. One of the prisoner who did a notable act to what the other prisoner may think he shouldn’t have done, showcased his freedom to make his own decisions. This prisoner who expresses his free will by making a decision that he was looked upon, actually benefited him, because he got to see a different side of the world that the other prisoner didn’t get to see. The author…

mentioned regarding the appearance of both the prisoner and the guards escorting him, the prisoner was a very weak sickly man as compared to the brutes that were escorting him. This is very interesting because as later mentioned in the story it depicts that the prisoner without any struggle was able to push against the guards in order to step aside from the puddle. This can be seen as the representation of the author’s message in which although the prisoner who looks weak and has shown to given…

In the Allegory of The Cave, Plato depicts a cave where prisoners are strapped into chairs facing a wall. There is a fire burning behind them, and in front of the fire there are puppets which throw shadows on the wall. The shadows on the wall are the prisoners reality, and they have no desire to leave because they know nothing better. If a prisoner were to escape from the chair, he would see the fire and it would hurt his eyes. So he would turn back to the shadows that are easy for him to look…

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 world and saw…

like the prisoners in Plato's Allegory of The Cave. To make this argument, I will first out the Allegory of The Cave. Second, I will argue that we are like the prisoners about the fact that what we see is selected for us, much like the people in Plato's trench picking which figurines they will hold up. Third I will entertain the strongest possible counter-argument which is that we are not like the prisoners because we can choose what we watch. It follows then that we are not prisoners of the…

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 haven’t seen anything else besides shadows. Through the time, he will get use to the habit outside the cave and share his experience to his fellow prisoners. Otherwise, in the Malcolm X’s article “Learning to Read,” the author…

newspapers. George Orwell gives his British audience a look at the horror that is imperialism in his essay, "A Hanging," by detailing the execution of a Burmese prisoner. Orwell's recollection of the hanging of a Burmese man uses imagery while also displaying the poor treatment of an oppressed man in a British…