Puppeteer

The movie I chose for this paper was, The Matrix. While watching this movie not only did the special effects and fight scenes interest me and make me think it was a good movie, but, additionally I noticed a lot of philosophical parallels. It's easy to see that The Matrix is based off of Plato's allegory, the cave. The cave is about a prison that people are trapped in and can't get out, they are seeing these images and shadows in front of them, but they are not aware that the real images are…

Are you excited about the upcoming holidays? Snow, decorations, cookies, time with family –all the things that make the Christmas season so wonderful. Despite all of these delightful aspects of Christmas, I’m having trouble getting excited. Why, you ask? I was lying in bed one evening after my Philosophy class, pondering what we had discussed that day. Images from Plato’s Republic about the Allegory of the Cave and the Sun and the Line kept rushing through my head. Then, I had an epiphany.…

to the cave in Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave. In the story, prisoners are trapped in a cave and do not know real things like animals, trees and the sun. They are only used to the shadows that are displayed on the wall that is controlled by the puppeteers. One of the prisoners eventually escapes, and is amazed to see the real objects compared to the two dimensional figures on the wall. Plato writes, “What he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching near to…

Villains across literature come in all shapes and sizes with different motive, but the function of their cruel, evil intentions to push a plot forward will stand the test of time. In Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” villains wreak havoc across the stage, left and right. Particularly, Shakespeare depicts Lady Macbeth as the most villainous character that further controls Macbeth’s mind to appease her ambition through the use of figurative language, details, and tone. Although some would argue that the…

and biting satire, knowing this is the only way to get his message across to the authorities in the church. These figures controlled every aspect of peasant life, as well as most aspects of the lives of nobles. The church often times acted as a puppeteer to the nobility, and this was something that Geoffrey Chaucer recognized. In order to cut into this authority, Chaucer called the church out through his stories and his description of those that represented the church. As it was said by Boece,…

to submit to men and assume roles and traits that are seen as inferior. In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins demonstrates assertiveness and the desire for power through his obsessive compulsion to exert control over others. Higgins exhibits a manipulative puppeteer complex towards Eliza and only sees her as a mere toy. His perception of Eliza as a distraction from boredom is seen in his apathetic demands to Ms. Pearce, ordering her to “Take all her [Eliza’s] clothes off and burn them. Ring up Whiteley or…

There was something about dating a filmmaker that put her at ease. It was hard for Terrence to take his video camera out whenever he wanted. It was kept locked up in his apartment and only used when he was working. A few times she went along on the shoots and behind the camera she felt protected. She thought of Ryan—how he told her to feel honored. Except the real honor, she discovered, was being a curator. Looking. Judging. Choosing. Once, Terrance even asked her opinion during a shoot. Do…

Kaufman’s Ouervre Charlie Kaufman’s oeuvre consists of films that play with style, reality, and filmic structure to discuss deep issues of humanity. A Kaufman script has a few idiosyncrasies of style and structure that make it very clear who the writer is. What is most notable about Kaufman’s style is his ability to take the ordinary and make it otherworldly. He presents us with normal people, most often an everyday guy, and then puts them into situations of science fiction, fantasy,…

“The Allegory of The Cave” can be easily related to Plato's Theory of Forms, and both can be used to decipher the possibility of true human knowledge. The “Doctrine of 2 of 9 Forms” is one of Plato’s famous theories, which states that the physical world is not the real world and there is an ultimate world that exists beyond it (Macintosh). Plato says that there are two types of realms: the realm of corporeal things in the physical world and the realm of forms. First, the realm of corporeal…

William Hazlitt, in his 1827 essay “On the Want of Money”, criticizes the treatment of poor people by those who are not so unfortunate and highlights the diminished quality of life resulting from such cruelties. His strongest method of delivering his message was through his powerful word choice; his curious syntax follows after, laden with images and connotative language. These strategies aid Hazlitt in his effort to compel the privileged to amend their attitudes toward and to acknowledge the…