The Prisoner

there are three prisoners that have been imprisoned in a cave for their whole life. They’ve only seen the same wall this whole time and their only source of light would is a fire which is behind them which creates shadows. At one point a prisoner is able to free himself from the chains, when he goes out he realizes that everything he’s been seeing on the walls of the cave are different once outside. He learns what is real and what isn’t and goes back to tell the other prisoners everything he’s…

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the acquired ability to move beyond fear.” This statement is exemplified in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, because the main character, Ivan Denisovich, is a middle-aged, Soviet prisoner in the infamous Gulag, struggling to persevere throughout the day-to-day challenges presented as a result of confinement in a prison camp. This situation requires him to stay brave under threats, not by fearing nothing, but by going past the feelings of being…

fire behind them that shows various shadows from the outside of the cave. These people have been stuck inside of the cave all of their lives until one of the prisoners is set free. Plato begins to explain this thought saying “See what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error” ( Page. 1…

of Education”, the two authors focus on a similar topic: education and delusions. In Plato’s Allegory, Plato discusses a scenario where prisoners, except for one who escapes, are inside a cave that impairs their ability to view the outside world. His writing is an allegory discussing his views of education and false beliefs with the use of the cave and the prisoners. Freire discusses two different styles of education: the banking concept and the problem-posing concept, while hinting a preference…

Allegory of the Cave,” Plato describes the cave as very dark with chained prisoners in front of a fire observing shadow of things. The shadows are the only “reality” they know. Outside the cave, there is “light” and the “truth”. A prisoner in the cave wanted freedom. But the prisoners could not get out. They were trap in the cave and all they could see were shadow illusions of people, animals and trees. So one day, one of the prisoners was granted freedom. He went out to the real world and saw…

although the biggest parallel can be seen within the character of Neo. The image of the prisoner who escaped from the cave in “The Allegory of the Cave” can be seen as having an influence on the Wachowski sibling’s character Neo from The Matrix. In “The Allegory of the Cave” a group of humans are imprisoned in a cave where they believed that reality was the shadows that were cast upon the cave wall. These prisoners can be compared to the humans in The Matrix. These people were living in the…

The confined people are only able to see the shadows of the objects which people are holding as they pass by on the roadway. Plato talks about the tiresome and challenging journey of how one achieves real truth not second hand truth, which the prisoners perceive is real. In this text the most significant ideas of Plato’s allegory is the idea of self- actualization and real truth. Plato states many examples to show that the people trapped are living in a false reality, and that they are closed…

and what is seen. It starts off with a long and dark cave, in the cave there are prisoners who, since birth, are tied around the neck and legs, inside a dark cave. The prisoners also have a limited field of vision, because of their ties they should always look forward. There is a light that illuminates their den, emanating a fiery fire behind them, a considerable and elevated distance. For their part, the prisoners have been able to see only shadows of objects projected by the high fire in the…

like the prisoners in Plato's Allegory of The Cave. To make this argument, I will first out the Allegory of The Cave. Second, I will argue that we are like the prisoners about the fact that what we see is selected for us, much like the people in Plato's trench picking which figurines they will hold up. Third I will entertain the strongest possible counter-argument which is that we are not like the prisoners because we can choose what we watch. It follows then that we are not prisoners of the…

In “The Allergy of The Cave”, the chains that were on the necks of the prisoners represent technology, because chain are man-made and it’s not created by nature. One of the biggest reason that the prisoners is kept from being ignorance, it’s because of the chain or another word technology. Even though they can use their imaginations on different shadows, at the end it’s just another reflection…