The Prisoner

The literary phenomenon of an allegory is an underlying message, or hidden meaning, within a work. It is not directly stated, but revealed in symbolic representation throughout the work. Two examples of allegories are Plato's "The Myth of the Cave" and Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull. These two allegories have different meanings, but they have similarities within their storylines. In "The Myth of the Cave," a group of people are "living in an underground cave" and "have their legs…

battle. But Bobby wanted to wait until night so they can have a sneak attack. It’s 12:00pm are you guys ready to charge? Everyone said “CHARGE!!!” and they attacked the village they got John and took him to the castle of Bobby. They’re holding him as prisoner. Now Nate is thinking how will i save my father i don’t have an army the only thing I have is the Sword Of…

Assignment 1 - Write a third person narrative of the hanging scene from Pirates of the Caribbean Over the colossal castle, the spherical star above peaked over the horizon. Led by a sequence of chains, relentless guards warily monitored every limping slave. Mist blew through the ashen compound as every helpless hostage whimpered in agony. Masking beats of drums pursued every hesitant shuffle. Desolated hostages scuffled onto the wooden deck; their blistered, wounded soles left blood prints…

Aristotle once said “Each man judges well the things that he knows, and of these he is the best judge. Thus the man who had been educated in a certain area is the best judge in that area, while the man who has a general education is a good judge in general.” The quote states how an individual is able to effectively judge the things that they know the best. Someone who has been educated in a certain area is the best judge for that area. The nature of the quote is taking what you know to make a…

Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” describes men who have been held prisoner in a cave for their entire lives that are brought out if the cave for the first time, and represents men searching for knowledge. Through the allegory, Plato claims that anyone can access knowledge and the truth, so long as the seeker is willing to pursue them. However, in Kleist’s “The Marquise of O—," the characters’ individual attempts to access the truth all come up short. In the paragraph that begins on page 108,…

Plato’s Allegory of the cave; Society of the spectacle ‘Picture human beings as thought they were in an underground cave-like dwelling. They are in bonds… and see nothing except the shadows cast by a fire on the wall of the cave… they are like us’. The current society that we are living in has already been widely manufactured; commodity and the media have already colonies our social life. People choose not to understand the real world, the remaining become imbedded and gaze upon he…

Sunmi Famule Hour 3 ESSAY TEST Comparing an Apple tree to an Orange tree is a task that deems the rolling of one's eyes. This is similar to comparing a book about the N-word (nigger The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy) to a book written by the out of touch Plato (Dialogues of Plato). However different, readers can scrounge up a similarity between the two and get a slight sense of how plato would have viewed Kennedy’s book. Plato would have viewed Kennedy’s book as a way…

Over this semester, the two works that stood out to me the most were Plato's Cave and the writing Jobs in the bible. Plato's Cave is allegorical writing with much representation in the atmosphere of the story. Plato's cave starts off by describing a dark, little to no light cave with people chained down by shackles in it. The peoples only entertainment and occupation is watching the shadows on the wall. They know nothing else but the show does that apead on the Wall.Eventually in the story, one…

The Cave Allegory This allegory is used to convey Plato’s attempt to explain what the nature of reality is. It displays the role of the masses, the educated, and reality. The setting takes place in a cave. The people within the cave are chained in such a way that they can only see the cave walls. Behind them are these strange figures that would carry objects and walk behind the people. Because there was a fire, the people could see their shadows. Sometimes the figures speak so they thought that…

“Tell me if they're too tight.” Derek said as he did the last things for tonight. “It's okay.” You might think we're going to do some dirty things. But no. Derek was helping me with my first full moon. I've known Derek since we were in diapers. Our parents already knew each other before our birth. And yes, my parents got to know a lot about werewolves. Maybe that's why they weren't mad at me when I asked them if I could get the bite. Of course they weren't happy with it in the first place, but…