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    mentioned regarding the appearance of both the prisoner and the guards escorting him, the prisoner was a very weak sickly man as compared to the brutes that were escorting him. This is very interesting because as later mentioned in the story it depicts that the prisoner without any struggle was able to push against the guards in order to step aside from the puddle. This can be seen as the representation of the author’s message in which although the prisoner who looks weak and has shown to given…

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    describes a situation of prisoners that see shadows on a wall and perceive it to be reality due to a narrow minded perception of the real world. Unfortunately, the prisoners Plato is referring to are humans in the real world, and he is making the claim that humans should not accept the reality in which we live in. Instead we should stretch personal development and bring the status quo into question. One prisoner manages to escape and realize what is truly happening…

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    applicable to my life in the 21st century. In the passage, several prisoners had spent their entire lives living chained inside a dark cave. The chains prevent the prisoners from seeing the world outside and only able to see the shadows that the real world reflects into the cave. When one of the prisoners escapes and finds out the truth about the world, he is ridiculed and threatened by his former colleagues. The freed prisoner, who now knows the truth of the world, is seen as insane by the…

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    parties use their resources in order to keep themselves safe. A famous example of this phenomenon is the prisoner’s dilemma. It involves two prisoners, each of whom are given the option to either confess to a crime or not to confess. If neither confesses, each prisoner will be sent to prison for one year. If one confesses and the other stays silent, the prisoner who confessed is set free and the other is sent to jail for three years. If both confess, then they are both sent to prison for two…

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    two meanings, one of which is literal ; there are prisoners in a cave, behind them is a fire and in between them and that fire is a passage. On the whole length of that passage way there is a wall high enough to hide the people who walk there but not high enough to hide the objects those people are holding above their heads. The prisoners can see the objects’ shadows and nothing else and therefore believe those shadows are beings. When a prisoner is released, he cannot see the fire or the…

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    (448).” Plato’s work is written as a conversation between himself and Socrates. The story describes prisoners in a cave, who have only seen what their captors let them. These captors, or “people with gear,” cast shadows on the walls, which the prisoners interpret as reality. Later, they set one of the prisoners free. After leaving, he discovers that the world is not as he expected. When the prisoner returns to the cave, he tells the others of the world above. I had a similar experience when a…

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    In the Allegory of The Cave, Plato depicts a cave where prisoners are strapped into chairs facing a wall. There is a fire burning behind them, and in front of the fire there are puppets which throw shadows on the wall. The shadows on the wall are the prisoners reality, and they have no desire to leave because they know nothing better. If a prisoner were to escape from the chair, he would see the fire and it would hurt his eyes. So he would turn back to the shadows that are easy for him to look…

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    "But I believe you've more information to share before we're truly done with you," The frowns on her guards' faces upset her. They must consider it foolish, what with the lengthy interrogation the prisoner had already gone through and to no avail. Worse yet, they could believe her to be favoring Meike simply due to their long-standing relationship, hesitating to execute an old friend and postponing it based on emotion. "You should be grateful for my…

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    in prison. In Plato’s article “The Allegory of the Cave,” one of the former prisoners have the privilege to go out from the cave to experiment new things as actual objects and the light. At the beginning, would be hard to the prisoner to get use to the journey since he haven’t seen anything else besides shadows. Through the time, he will get use to the habit outside the cave and share his experience to his fellow prisoners. Otherwise, in the Malcolm X’s article “Learning to Read,” the author…

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    his writing, Plato asks everyone to imagine humans as prisoners kept from childhood in a deep, dark cave. They have chains around their necks to keep them facing forward while a fire from behind them projects shadows on the wall in front of them. These shadows act as the only real thing that they have ever come across (Plato). After one prisoner is set free and able to turn around, he becomes very confused of what is behind him. The prisoner is at a loss since he cannot differentiate between the…

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