The Shadow

A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie is an oil on canvas painting currently located at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City as part of the museum’s collection of American paintings. Albert Bierstadt created this panoramic painting in New York in 1866. The piece’s accession number at the museum is 76.79. Just as the title indicates, the painting’s subject is a storm in the Rocky Mountains, specifically at the lake valley of Mt. Rosalie and with Native Americans riding horses along the…

still more shadow. It smelled of dust and disuse-a close, dank smell. The Negro led them into the parlor. It was furnished in heavy, leather covered furniture. When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sunray.” (Faulkner para.4) Faulkner uses the imagery to not only provide a visual…

In everyone, a personal shadow forms. Within that shadow a person buries the qualities that don’t fit their self-image. Morals are instilled from people in the environment, and a person then learns what is proper behavior according to society. Many people live out the socially acceptable life and others live out the disowned life. Once they become negative images to another groups projection the shadow turns into evil, like racism. People have to begin owning their shadow. By expanding their…

An allegory can use a situation or event in order to reveal a deeper meaning or lesson. Allegories can act as analogies that point out logical inconsistencies and cause one to reflect and even question their own way of life. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” Plato intends to point out the prison-like obedience that humans who are “in the cave” have to their lifestyle, and the difficult choice of giving up this lifestyle in search of something more. This allegory displays the confining nature of…

This shot is from Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train film where Bruno Antony, on the right, meets Guy Haines, on the left, on a train in the beginning of the film. The conversation between them is quite awkward as Bruno is doing majority of the talking and seems to know everything about Guy’s life including information about his wife and his affair with Anne Morton. Guy seems to be in a stage of shock that Bruno knows all his personal information and seems furious that Bruno keeps talking…

saw a shadow sitting in a chair. Then the shadow got up and ran through the wall. Them man that saw the shadow later went to the owner. He said to the owner, “I have been seeing some shadows doing some freaky stuff”. The owner said, “I have been seeing things like that too”. They were both scared when it happened they didn’t know what to do. One late night the man went to finish up some stuff and he saw it again. So he went to the owner once again he thought it had to stop. “These shadows…

ought to go to the farewell now,” Her father said. “Yes father, I’m rushing!” Jane yelled back. The farewell was a goodbye to John White as he sailed from Roanoke to England and back. As Jane rushed outside, she saw a shadow flying by. She didn’t know that soon to come that shadow would become her and her colony’s greatest allie, but she shook the thought off and caught back up with her father. Her mother stayed home with her little brother that had became extremely…

light is the sun (but they don’t know that) and it reflects the shadows of people who are carrying different objects, Because this is all they see, they start to perceive the shadows as the people because they were unaware of the actual people who casted those shadows. When one of them becomes free and goes into the light, he is painfully greeted with the realization that the shadows are not people, rather people casted those shadows. When he goes back to the cave and tells the others what he…

In the allegory “The Cave”, the author had a very vivid way of connecting the shackles that the prisoners experienced in the cave to modern day society. Sadly the analogy is very similar to what we experience on a day to day basis. From social media, to marriage, jobs, learning disabilities, and actual prisons, “The Cave”,represents our very own version of a cave, or prison . In this essay I will overview some background of the cave, explain how the cave represents shackles on our minds, and…

them is a fire that casts shadows onto the cave wall that the prisoners are facing. Between the prisoners and the fire is a raised walkway that allows unnamed people to walk through, although the walkway has a wall to obscure the shadows of the people themselves to be seen by the prisoners. The people carry various objects above their heads, meaning these objects then get cast onto the cave wall opposite from the prisoners. Socrates claims that to these men, these shadows are all that they…