Prisoner of war

(448).” Plato’s work is written as a conversation between himself and Socrates. The story describes prisoners in a cave, who have only seen what their captors let them. These captors, or “people with gear,” cast shadows on the walls, which the prisoners interpret as reality. Later, they set one of the prisoners free. After leaving, he discovers that the world is not as he expected. When the prisoner returns to the cave, he tells the others of the world above. I had a similar experience when a…

in life, and eventually becomes enlightened. In the cave described by Plato, prisoners are powerless and chained to the wall. The prisoners are missing out on all the things happening behind them, like the fire and the puppets. What they can see and hear are shadows and echoes. When the prisoners tried to get out of the cave, they couldn’t face the real world; they had mistaken appearance for reality. Like the prisoners in the Allegory, my cave was social media. Eliminating social media…

In the novel, Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl was a look at what life was like in the Holocaust camp Frankl’s own eyes, who was a prisoner at Auschwitz. Frankl was searching for meaning in his own life. He wanted to figure out what his life meant to him, especially what he went through. A person can suffer something in their life and that person can either sulk and allow their life to not be a good one, or that person can make something out of their suffering and life their life. A…

the main hall and the warden gives us instructions. All of the prisoners are divided up into different halls, and we have a designated prison guard. Some prison guards are nice, but usually they are mean. The prisoners that have been here for a long time can get away with more because they suck-up to the warden and the guards. If we do something bad, we go into the isolation room, where we are assigned the work for that day. Each prisoner is assigned their own ID number, and finger print code…

and what is seen. It starts off with a long and dark cave, in the cave there are prisoners who, since birth, are tied around the neck and legs, inside a dark cave. The prisoners also have a limited field of vision, because of their ties they should always look forward. There is a light that illuminates their den, emanating a fiery fire behind them, a considerable and elevated distance. For their part, the prisoners have been able to see only shadows of objects projected by the high fire in the…

Switch advertisement titled First Look at Nintendo Switch can be analyzed and compared with each other. In Plato’s allegory, prisoners are trapped in the cave and forced to stare at shadows on a wall. When one of the prisoners is freed and exposed to the truth behind the shadows, which is that they are simply objects being manipulated by puppeteers. The freed prisoner is also also introduced to the outdoors, allowing for him to be enlightened. The advertisement is aimed at selling the…

in discussion with Glaucon a fellow philosopher. They are discussing a hypothetical situation. There is a group of prisoners who are held captive in the cave chained by the neck and feet. They cannot turn their head or move their bodies. All they can see are images in front of them and the glowing in the back of them from the side. The images are shadows that pass behind the prisoners but they don't know that because they are only allowed to look in one direction. They can hear the sound but do…

themes will all have relation to the trapped prisoners and the author's view on education. In the beginning of the Allegory we are presented with an image of a cave. Inside the cave there seems to be individuals chained up so the only direction they can see is right before them. Meanwhile, behind the prisoners there is a fire burning casting shadows on the wall in front of them. With that we know that these shadows are they only thing these prisoners know to be reality, which is completely false…

Plato’s mentor. The story begins with three prisoners that were chained, immobilized, and forced to face a wall since birth. They had mistaken the images that were being cast on the wall for reality. They heard echoes which they believe were the voices of the shadows that they had seen. One of the prisoner was then released from the cave. When the prisoner was dragged out he was forced to examine his life and examine the life outside the cave. When the prisoner first steps outside his eyes are…

there are three prisoners that have been imprisoned in a cave for their whole life. They’ve only seen the same wall this whole time and their only source of light would is a fire which is behind them which creates shadows. At one point a prisoner is able to free himself from the chains, when he goes out he realizes that everything he’s been seeing on the walls of the cave are different once outside. He learns what is real and what isn’t and goes back to tell the other prisoners everything he’s…