The Prisoner

advice from the other prisoners. Conformity is expressed through the prison guards clothing, and the prisoner’s actions. Obedience to authority is seen through Dragline – Luke’s right hand man – who believes following rules will lead to a positive outcome. Luke spent most of his life conforming, and being obedient in the military. After all this time following rules and orders, he decided…

38: Plato describes a scene, in which there are prisoners held captive in a cave facing away from the entrance. There is a fire behind them, and that fire is casting shadows of the objects in front of the fire onto the wall that they are looking at. These prisoners have then obtained the perception that this is the reality of the situation. This is the true size, shape and physical form of the objects in front of the fire. When one of the prisoners escapes, he finds that the objects in front of…

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 cannot turn his head due to the chains, he was forced to watch…

At the beginning he described the perspective of the prisoners and how we, in a way, are those prisoners. He also describes the environment of the prisoners; he stated that the prisoners are chained inside a cave. Here the “cave” symbolizes how we all live in a world that we consider reality. Ever since we are able to comprehend the world around us, we hold some perspective of that reality that may be false. Once the prisoner was freed and was allowed to look at the light behind him, Socrates…

Change is an adjustment and if you do not change you will be left behind. In the story, it gives the setting, then we get to read how the prisoners view the world and then how one of the prisoners was set free and this shows how he will begin learning new things from what he originally knew before. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” it shows that people should accept change because they never know what can happen once they know the whole truth and through the use of point of view, imagery, and…

The Zimbardo Prison Study revealed how prisoners and prison guards transitioned into predefined roles, behaving in a way that was thought to be a requirement, rather than using their own reasoning and beliefs. Zimbardo wanted to communicate how dehumanizing and disengaging them from social and moral values can affect an individual engaged in a highly stressful situation and what happens when identity and pride are taken away as a result of their lives being controlled. After watching the…

divider are different statues, which are controlled by another gathering of individuals, lying beyond anyone's ability to see behind the halfway divider. As a result of the flame, the statues cast shadows over the divider that the prisoners are looking at. Since the prisoners have never known reality other than those shadows, they believe the shadows to be the truth, and if the voices from…

cave, humans trapped as prisoners, and all of our experiences as shadows on a wall. Plato describes the cave like this, “imagine men to be living in an underground cave-like dwelling place, which has a way up to the light along its whole width, but the entrance is a long way up” (Kessler, 440). The prisoners have been there from childhood, and are chained and unable to turn…

Sheehan explains how people are living in cavelike dwelling like prisoners and not in the real word. It’s telling us how people are stuck in one place because they don't believe that there is something different from what and where they are living. In the story there was a prisoner that had escaped from the cave and was able to view the outside world and how different it was. Once he went back into the cave and told the other prisoners what he had seen they didn't believe him and they wanted to…

When prisoners died they were buried in the prison cemetery, which is located across from the prison. Of the 111 deaths only 104 of the bodies were buried in the cemetery, the other seven were claimed by the families. Only one body was never buried or given to the family, it was the one-hundred and twelfth death that happened on the way to Yuma. The prisoner tried to escape by jumping off the train but hit his head on a rock on the…