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    passing through between the prisoners and a fire. Every day the people in the cave watch these shadows and have given them names, it has become their reality. The prisoners had created a game of guessing which shadow would appear next, if one was correct, the others would praise him as intelligent and clever. However, Plato suggests that since these shadows are not the truth, it would be silly to admire someone that actually does not know anything. Eventually, one prisoner decides to break…

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    decently controversial concept is brought up in The Allegory… The cave prisoners were born believing all they see in front of them, the dancing shadows of people backlit by the fire behind them, are actually black beings moving along the cave wall in front of them. How is it possible they believe in such a reality as closed minded as this? Surely they would know better after one prisoner was freed and shown reality as non prisoners see, comes back and tells their story. Why don’t they believe…

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    in discussion with Glaucon a fellow philosopher. They are discussing a hypothetical situation. There is a group of prisoners who are held captive in the cave chained by the neck and feet. They cannot turn their head or move their bodies. All they can see are images in front of them and the glowing in the back of them from the side. The images are shadows that pass behind the prisoners but they don't know that because they are only allowed to look in one direction. They can hear the sound but do…

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    in life, and eventually becomes enlightened. In the cave described by Plato, prisoners are powerless and chained to the wall. The prisoners are missing out on all the things happening behind them, like the fire and the puppets. What they can see and hear are shadows and echoes. When the prisoners tried to get out of the cave, they couldn’t face the real world; they had mistaken appearance for reality. Like the prisoners in the Allegory, my cave was social media. Eliminating social media…

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    In the Book, I found Irony in the situation of prisoners becoming guards, how whites were expected in prison to do what southern society saw a slave work; and the irony of just when human bloodlust was considered perfectly okay, and when that line was considered crossed, or barbaric.…

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    The Cave is a story about a man who had spent his life chained to a cave only seeing shadows from a fire behind him. One day, he is released and goes to see the wonders of his new world. Eventually, he returns back to the cave to tell the other prisoners about the wonders of the world however they did not recognize his distorted voice or his shadowed body. It is from there that Plato begins his commentary of what the allegory was trying to say. Many topics were discussed in his commentary…

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    wall and while the prisoners know a name for the thing, what they see is not true belief. The prisoners however know the names of the perceived things and while their reality is a façade, their soul knows of forms. I will explain how the darkness is ignorance, shadows are perception in the material world, how the prisoners had knowledge to begin with, and how they account for Plato’s epistemology. The darkness of the cave was Ignorance in physical form, this lead the prisoners to believe that…

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    newspapers. George Orwell gives his British audience a look at the horror that is imperialism in his essay, "A Hanging," by detailing the execution of a Burmese prisoner. Orwell's recollection of the hanging of a Burmese man uses imagery while also displaying the poor treatment of an oppressed man in a British…

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    intrinsic traits within one’s personality are responsible for cruel and offensive behaviour displayed in prison environments. Zimbardo conducted a study whereby he aimed to investigate whether individuals would conform to roles of either a guard, or prisoner, in a simulated prison setting. The participants were recruited by a newspaper advertisement in the Palo Alto Times and The Stanford Daily offering…

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    the idea of the unknown when escaping, the prisoner exhibit that he can go beyond the limits of his freedom by escaping. One of the prisoner who did a notable act to what the other prisoner may think he shouldn’t have done, showcased his freedom to make his own decisions. This prisoner who expresses his free will by making a decision that he was looked upon, actually benefited him, because he got to see a different side of the world that the other prisoner didn’t get to see. The author…

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