Reality therapy

Truth is Not What it is Truth is the reality of what has happened, however, the road to understanding truth is not always straightforward and smooth. This is because one person may perceive the truth one way, while another perceives the truth differently, so, their truths are different. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the steps towards discovering the real truth are discussed, and these concepts are present in William Shakespeare’s Othello. The characters created by Shakespeare in Othello…

breaks free and discovers the real world, he returns to the cave to enlighten the others, who refuse to stray from what they have known all their lives. This represents the idea that humans are innately inclined to accept only what they know be their reality and avoid anything that may contradict their personal truths. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” argues that individuals are far too trusting of the information fed to them by society and adamant in preserving their beliefs because they fear the…

The retelling of the tale of Rama According to A.K. Ramanujan’s schema, the retelling is a mix of both iconic as well as indexical; however not symbolic. An iconic retelling is one that has the same or similar structure to the main story as well as a similar plot. we can see that in the video that the Rama story is extremely similar in structure and plot to the story of the American couple. Indexical retelling applies as well, seeing that the structure and plot are similar between the two…

Credibility: What Moore is Lacking in Capitalism: A Love Story A documentary is a film used to report some form of reality. This film genre is associated with the unaltered truth and as a result people often believe what they watch is fact, portrayed in a way for them to see all sides of a controversy where they can forge an opinion for themselves. However, Capitalism: A Love Story does not follow that structure. Moore believes that capitalism is a flawed system and incorporates his opinions…

The short story “A Mere interlude” written by Thomas Hardy makes effective use of narrative voice to reveal the intentions of Hardy in crafting such a story. The irony of the title, as what was supposed to be “A Mere Interlude”, Baptista’s short and tragic marriage to her ex-lover Charles Stow, eventually takes form as a major turning point in her life. It subjects her to much emotional turmoil and eventually leads her back to the one thing she hoped to escape from through her marriage to…

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave offered meaningful insight into the education process. To begin the allegory, Plato proposed that a group of prisoners were chained and unable to move because of these chains. They could only gaze upon one thing, the shadows which were projected onto the wall by a fire set above and behind them. These shadows were of various different items that were being carried by people behind a wall that enabled only the shadows of the items to be projected. Since the prisoner…

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…

live in reality, or is reality just a dream? In The Unavoidable Dream Problem, James T. M. Miller asks the question, can know if we are not dreaming much like Dominick Cobb did in Inception? Firstly, Miller explained why the use of a totem to confirm if you are in reality of a dream is flawed. Let’s use Cobb’s totem as an example, which is a metal, spinning top. If the top does turn forever, we know with all certainty that we are in fact in a dream because that is not possible in “reality.”…

distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy.” Which is a pretty broad description. Miriam-Webster’s full definition is: “Habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from reality or routine” I see it as whenever someone escapes their reality in any form, be it Video games, Novels, Movies, Writing etc. Pretty much anyway you escape your troubled reality and delve into something better,…

To begin, he “destroys” everything that was taught, or he has known and begins his search with a clean table. Unlike Plato, Descartes foundations started with the individual, rather than concerning the shadows of the outside world or reality. Even though we perceive thing through our senses, he acknowledges that at times our senses can deceive us. Take for example when you are driving down a road and you seem to have seen a puddle, once you get closer you realize there was never a puddle…