The Prisoner

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…

deep thought and analysis. In this paper, I will discuss the influence of Plato and Aristotle seen in our culture today. The Myth of the Cave, (Palmer 2013), depicts a story about prisoners chained up in a cave. Their vision was limited to shadows on the wall and gave them a false sense of reality. One prisoner was unchained and forced to look at the real source of the shadows. The pain caused by the light of the fire made him prefer the deception, but he was forced out of the cave into…

face in front of them the walkway whereby shadows are being casts by the fire light behind them.All the knew and saw are the shadows of objects that are portray on the wall and were naming them according to the what they see.Suddenly one of the prisoners got release. While outside it was hard for him to adapt to the reality such as the sunlight which got to his eyes and blinded him because he has been used to darkness and also everything…

human awareness. In the short story a group of prisoners have been confined in a cavern ever since birth with no knowledge of the outside world. They are chained facing a wall unable to turn their heads. While a fire behind them gives off a faint light. Sometimes people pass by carrying figures of animals and other objects that cast shadows on the wall. The prisoners believe that the shadows are real and they begin to classify them. Suddenly one prisoner is unchained and brought outside for the…

concentration camps was terrifying and draining emotionally and physically to the prisoners. The prisoners were always fearful of unnecessary beating and lashes from whips. The Nazi’s changed every person so that they could no longer feel or have emotions. The Nazi’s forced the prisoners to do unnecessary work in terrible conditions. Daily life in the Concentration Camps can be described as absolutely terrifying. The able-bodied prisoners worked in the slave labor complex. To start of the day…

hear are not real knowledge, and that there is another way of finding the truth which is philosophical. The allegory shows how the cave, shadows, game, escape and return of the prisoner symbolized different things a person would know if he/she would even try to look at things differently. The allegory started with three prisoners tied up by a chain inside a cave where the fire behind them is the only source of light. They didn't have any choice but to look at the wall in front of them where they…

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…

I just went with it now. If I had to kill someone, I did it. I questioned my own existince so many times I couldn't keep track. The Nazis were so harsh, it was unbelievable, well, for normal people it was unbelievable, for me, it was normal. The Prisoner numbers had gone down so much. There were about 4,000 Jews left, the numbers had dropped so much. At Treblinka, it was known that not many people survive at all. If anyone survived, it was about 500 people that would survive. We were tortured…

big question, “What is knowledge?” Plato’s way of demonstrating knowledge is his most famous examples of the Allegory of the Cave and The Divided Line, which uses the idea of sense perception. Socrates/Plato set the scenario in which there are prisoners who've been kept since childhood in a cave. Being chained, immobile, and facing a wall, there is a raised walkway and behind it there was a lit fire. A person of the walkway had objects that could be identified if seen, even in a shadow…

the Cave” from Book 7 of “The Republic” theorizes on what would occur if a prisoner chained in a cave, exposed only to shadows on a wall were to break free of his chains. Plato theorized that when the prisoner was exposed to what we consider the “real world” he would not believe what he sees; gradually the prisoner would adjust to this new reality and become enlightened with knowledge and understanding. When the prisoner brings his newfound knowledge back to the…