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  1. “The Allegory of the Cave” and “The Matrix”

    “The Allegory of the Cave” and “The Matrix,” one is artificial while the other is real. Although both stories have a lot in common, “The Matrix” is not based exactly on Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave.” However, there is a relation to his concept. Plato’s thesis from “The Allegory of the Cave” was...

  2. Cave

    The allegory has a display of the dismal condition of the majority of humans in the world. We are like chained slaves living in an underground cave, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the cave. Here we have been from our childhood, incapable to move or to see afar, being...

  3. Rhetoric of Allegory of the Cave

    Aristotle, used it to craft their thoughts into ideas easily accepted by many. One of Plato’s most famous examples of philosophy is “The Allegory of the Cave”. In this allegory, Plato creates an incredible representation of one perspective on the world and what someone sees as being real. He makes this analogy...

  4. Plato, the Allergory of the Cave

    Feb 14, 2009 Plato, the Allegory of the Cave Reality is based by perception. Perception is determined by objects that surround us, commodities, objects stripped of meaning. These objects determine our perception; a shallow existence. We are living in the cave and Plato’s shadows are our commodities...

  5. The Matrix. Movie essay

    Republic. In this story entitled "The Allegory of the Cave," he describes a dark underground cave where a group of people are sitting in one long row with their backs to the cave's entrance. Chained all together and from an early age, all the humans can see is the distant cave wall in from of them. The shadows...

  6. Platos Allegory

    Enlightenment “The allegory depicts people living in a cave, which represents the world of sense-experience. In the cave people see only unreal objects, shadows, or images. Through a painful intellectual process, which involves the rejection and overcoming of the familiar sensible world, they begin...

  7. open minded is more beneficial than Being closed-minded

    study of knowledge. In his work of the Allegory of the Cave Plato is having a conversation with his Educator Socrates in this conversation he is creating a symbolic story. He starts out his story with the description of this cave then explaining the prisoners in cave; they are chained down by their hands...

  8. The Matrix and Epistemology

    In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, prisoners only have experience of the world through shadows on the cave wall and echoes of sound coming off of the wall. When a prisoner is set free, he experiences discomfort at his first sight of reality inside the cave, seeing the fire for the first time and seeing...

  9. Philosophy Research Paper

    Plato’s allegory of the cave and Aristotle’s Golden mean to answer this question. The reason I seek to answer the question is because to find the path to happiness you must first understand that you have to learn to perceive the world not with your physical attributes, but your mind (Allegory of the Cave)...

  10. Presentations of God in Children's Literature

    novels would fit comfortably beside another great children’s author C.S. Lewis, whose Chronicles of Narnia series has long been described as Christian allegory for children. However, interestingly it was Pullman himself who first encouraged these comparisons by publishing ‘The dark side of Narnia’ in the...

  11. History

    which led him to kill himself. His finest recognized work is “The Republic” where we find the scenarios of Simile of the Line and Allegory of the Cave. These two allegories explore the field of rationalism and empiricism, which are the main approaches of questioning what knowledge really is or else they...

  12. Views of The Unknown

    far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened” (Plato 867) The Allegory of the Cave by Plato represents an extended metaphor that is to contrast the way in which we perceive and believe in what is reality. The thesis behind his allegory is the basic opinion that all we perceive are imperfect "reflections"...

  13. The Social Impact of Facebook: an Evaluation of the Effects of Facebook on Society’s Interactions and Their Outcomes

    comments and likes, you’re made to feel like your life interests others. The Allegory of the Cave is a story in which prisoners are chained in a cave, seeing only shadows of real life. I find that Facebook has become our cave. We’re the prisoners, chained to the site, by the hope that our lives are mildly...

  14. Interaction and Reaction in Virgil and Homer

    Interaction and Reaction in Virgil and Homer "May it be right to tell what I have heard, May it be right, and fitting, by your will, That I describe the deep world sunk in darkness Under the earth." (Aeneid VI, 366-369) The remarkable resemblance between the Underworld of Homer's Odyssey and...

  15. Plato's Republic

    cause- and “The Republic” is no exception. The effect of Socrate’s death was the birth of one of the most important works in the western philosophy. cave is found in the BOOK VII of the Republic. Plato (428-347B.C.) To Plato, the death of Socrates was a striking example of the conflict that can exist...

  16. Ignorance or Knowledge

    2013 Ignorance or Knowledge Most individuals are faced with the choice of either staying ignorant or obtaining knowledge. In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” a man is dragged from the darkness (ignorance) into the light (knowledge). (Plato) In most cases people are able to teach themselves or be...

  17. Beautiful Deception

    piece is protecting him from the despondency of his present condition in turn allows human nature, to be part fulfilling. Plato, too in his Allegory of the Cave believes that sometimes perceptions can be misleading and that it takes for that person to seek further knowledge to correctly decipher the...

  18. Reality Is Merely a Matter of Perception

    exist at all. The underlying theme of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” is that humans are all prisoners and that the tangible world is our cave, and that the things we perceive as real are truly just shadows on the wall. Existence outside of the cave is unknown and represents the intangible, intellectual...

  19. Matrix and Philosophy

    final conclusion that he is, in fact, “The One.” A direct connection from The Matrix to philosophy is the connection that the film makes to the Allegory of the Cave, which is an analogy presented by Socrates in Plato’s writings in The Republic. Morpheus tells Neo he was “Born into a prison for his mind.”...

  20. Chairs

    429-347 B.C.E. (Plato’s time period), people still perceived reality as what is real and what is just a figment of their imagination. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” relates to the act that what someone believes as real really isn’t there; that person looks at something else and gives it a name to make objects...

  21. The Creation of Destruction

    the cold, emotionless nature of the machines enough so that the machines themselves can be classified as monsters. It also represents a national allegory, and highlights important cautions to take when making new technological advancements. The scariest thing about the plot of the Matrix is that...

  22. Oblivious to Reality

    trapped in a dark cave from birth. With nothing to see aside from shadows casted along a wall by a fire, and their bodies bound so they are only able to look straight ahead, this wall is their definition of the real world. They are clearly blinded from the truth that remains outside of the cave. However, if...

  23. Influences

    and behavior and also there are many ways an individual can go beyond the influences. The three passages that talked about influences were “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato, “The Personal and the Collective Unconscious” by Carl Jung, and also “The theory of Multiple Intelligences” by Howard Gardner. Plato...

  24. What Is the Real World

    a greater truth outside known reality with the story of a cave. In his allegory, people are living in a cave watching shadows on the wall. The shadows are all they have known and to them, it is reality. One day a person escapes from the cave and is blinded by the sunlight as he emerges. When at last...

  25. Theories of Education

    studied in high academic levels, it would be hard for them to explain the basis for their students. This situation can be explained by the “Allegory of the Cave” written by Plato, which says that after going out to see the sun for a long time and becoming familiar with the sun light, the prisoner become...

  26. The Idea of the Form

    ultimate principle of reality and truth, and also the ultimate object of the soul’s progress. Plato in his allegory of the Cave, used men chained since they were child in an underground cave. In a higher up distance there is a fire burning behind them, and the light of the fire reflects the shadow of...

  27. Theory of Ideas Outline

    Fundamental to understanding the philosophy of Plato is in the comprehending of his Theory of Forms. Through the allegory of the Myth of the Cave contained in his work the Republic, Plato demonstrates that there are two realms: The Visible World, that which contains ever changing objects perceived by...

  28. Passage to India

    woman who is to be married into this system, challenges it by expressing her wish to see the “real India”. An expedition to the extraordinary Marabar Caves is arranged by Dr Aziz, who is trying to prove to himself and his Muslim friends that it is possible to be friends with the English. The open minded...

  29. Plato - Philosophy as an Influence

    the time. The horrible part is we do not recognize that we are ignorant. To point up this view, Plato asks us to imagine a cave. The prisoners are locked and chained inside the cave and their heads are put in a position that the only thing they can see is a wall in front of them. The prisoners believe...

  30. Romanticism Versus Enlightenment in “Rip Van Winkle”

    Enlightenment ideal of structured, civilized life. Also, the aforementioned quote supports the supposition that Romanticism is a reaction to the Enlightenment lifestyle through Rip’s reaction to the labor of the farm and the clamor of his overbearing wife. Equally important is Irving’s use of individualism to...

  31. Logic cannot prove the existence of God

    existence is logically necessary. It could be argued that philosophers like Plato use logic and reason to prove God’s existence for example in the allegory of the cave. Anselm would have disagreed with this statement completely as he clearly thought that God could be proved by logic and reason alone. His ontological...

  32. I Just Want to Download

    sensual objects – differences and similarities 13. Plato’s theory of ideas: the conception of participation 14. Plato’s theory of ideas: the allegory of the cave 15. Plato’s theory of ideas: the ideal state 16. Aristotle: syllogisms 17.Hylomorphism: substance and its components 18....

  33. Who Shot Jfk

    Big Johnson October 12, 2011 Summary Draft Plato. “The Allegory of the Cave.” Mercury Reader: Writing Responsibility, Communities in Conversation. Eds. Janice Neulieb, Kathleen Shine Cain, and Stephen Ruffus. New York: Pearson, 2011. 95-99. Print. In this reading Plato interpreted the difference...

  34. What Do You Think?

    then the materialism and from the Bible. Plato has a lot of examples to prove that he was right or the idea was right. He gave out the story “Allegory of the Cave” from the book ‘The Republic’. He also describes the soul being like a charioteer trying to steer two horses. The chariot might be seen as...

  35. intro

    devil" is possible here. The most famous summary of Plato's philosophy is the allegory of the Cave, found in Book VII of his Republic. There Plato asks readers to imagine prisoners chained to a bench, facing the wall of a deep cave. Behind them is a six-foot wall, behind that a fire, and in between the fire...

  36. Life of Pi Paradox

    It seems very hard to believe that Pi killed the hyena especially considering the hyena was also human. Plato’s The Allegory Cave involves a man who lives among many people in a cave and he decides he wants to get out and discover how other humans live. "The three-toed sloth is not well informed about...

  37. Equality

    led to believe as the truth, beauty, and goodness of society by an overseer, that they have lost all consciousness of a sound reality. In the Allegory of the Caves, Plato says “the many, as we say, are seen but not known, and the ideas are known but not seen.” This holds a powerful truth toward the middle...

  38. Carlsbad Caverns

    renowned of which are the caves. The most visited, and conceivably researched, cave is the Carlsbad Cavern. All of the caves within the National Park contain rare speleothems, which are formations built from calcite (CaCO3) minerals precipitating after water in certain areas of the cave evaporates. The formations...

  39. Human Inteligence

    recognize it we live in world that has more then three dimensions. Although humans use their senses to form their reality, as the slaves in the cave allegory from Plato’s, “Republic,” did, it is not a complete reality. It was only what they had experienced to be true. The shadows were not talking, even...

  40. love

    to stressful situations is exceeded, they withdraw temporarily, "retreating into their cave", so to speak. Often, they literally retreat: for example, to the garage, or to go spend time with friends. In their "caves", men (writes Gray) are not necessarily focussed on the problem at hand; the "time-out"...

  41. Symbolism in Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf

    illustrate the relationship between the two couples of the play and therefore comment on the human condition. To some extent, the play can be seen as an allegory as the characters reflect different ideas and situations. Nick, who is young, blonde and good-looking, symbolizes the threat of a painfully perfect...

  42. Emotional Experience Through Horror Films

    processes from logical ones. One brain process involves an involuntary response to outside stimuli. This would be Charles’ immediately apparent reaction to jump in his seat, for his stomach to drop, or heart rate to speed up. Not immediately apparent is an increase of activity in a certain region...

  43. Allegory in Frankenstein

    An allegory is a story conveying a meaning other than the basic literal one. Allegories are similar to symbols and metaphors in the sense that they often represent deep ideas that have to be thoroughly analyzed in order to be completely understood. The main difference between the two is the fact that...

  44. Tne Unnecessary College

    Lorimer, Lawrence T., ed. “University.” Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge. Vol. 19. Connecticut: Grolier Incorporated, 1991. Plato. “The Allegory of the Cave.” Braun 181-187. Ryan, “15 Successful Entrepreneurs Who Didn’t Need College.” Online posting. 5 Nov. 2007. 9 Oct. 2008. < http://www.college-startup...

  45. Anxiety Disorders

    PTSD that affect him from the beginning of his childhood and on through adulthood. As a little boy, Bruce Wayne is traumatized when he falls into a cave and is swarmed by bats. Later in the film, Wayne is also traumatized by the knowledge that the darkness of Gotham City can spit out cretins who will...

  46. Comic Books in Us History

    more important connotation. In fact, comic books can be read and analyzed historically as reflections of society’s values and morays of the time. Allegories within comic books have reflected society’s darkest struggles in women’s attempts to overcome misogyny, the African American fight for civil rights...

  47. Modern Litreature

    Indian housing, which is a mirror of the superior attitude of the British towards the natives. The only extraordinary feature in the area is the Marabar Cave, twenty miles away. Adela Quested is a young, intelligent, and sensible British woman who becomes engaged to Ronny Heaslop, Mrs. Moore's son by her...

  48. Cave Reports

    November 11, 2009 Cave Report Caves Sea caves are formed at the coastal line where the water, whether it be sea, ocean, or lake, meet the weakness of the rock like faults, different sediments, or weaker layers. They are formed by the power of the ocean, in some cases lakes, attacking zones of...

  49. What Is Meant to Be a Hero

    Filibusterismo. However, as a brilliant student, he became a leader of the reform movement of Filipino students in Spain. He contributed essays, allegories, poems and editorials to the Spanish newspapers La Solidaridad in Barcelona. The core of his writings centers on liberal and progressive ideas of...

  50. Platos Cave and the Matrix

    Plato’s cave and the movie the matrix I would say they are very similar. In both stories human beings are not living in reality, they are living in an artificial world and are blinded from what is really happening outside the walls of their world. In the story of the cave humans were keep in a cave, whereas...

  51. The Cave

    Shaquilla Carter November 13, 2013 The Cave The parable of the cave is a story where men are held prisoner is a cave. These men could not move because they were chained underground and all they could see are shadow of things from the fire that was burning. These men only saw shadows of things because...

  52. Shakespeare

    stories and lives of Saints were depicted as a means of religious preaching. Later, Morality Plays originated which represented virtue and vice as allegories. Also called the Interlude, Morality Plays were famous during the Medieval and Early Tudor theatre. The protagonist was the spokesperson for humanity...

  53. Unwritten History- Cave Paintings

    B.C., paintings were created in over 300 caves across the globe. “There are two types of cave art: petroglyphs, which are pictures carved in stone and pictographs, which are pictures painted on stone” (Cave Painting). The art is usually found in hidden caves thatare difficult to locate. For this reason...

  54. themes of marabar caves

    The Marabar Caves The core event in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India is the ‘assault’ experienced by Adela Quested in one of the Marabar Caves, where Aziz has taken Miss Quested and Mrs Moore for a day’s excursion despite his scarce knowledge of the Hindu caves. The central chapter of the section...

  55. Significance of Baiame Cave and Other Australian Indigenous Sites

    Hidden near Milbrodale, NSW is Baiame Cave. It’s surrounded by fields and mountains rich with life. This Cave is a part of many rock shelters that spread across 80 hectares, all riddled with traditional Aboriginal rock art. This area is significant to over several Indigenous groups. One of the most...

  56. Critical Approaches to Metamorphosis

    critics include: normative, genre, literary history and interdisciplinary. Key elements of the normative approach include positive and negative reactions, although most of the reviews were of a positive nature. For instance, Christopher Rawson described the play as “charming”, “brilliantly theatrical”...

  57. An Hour of Freedom, an Eternity of Oppression

    An Hour of Freedom, An Eternity of Oppression Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" illustrates a woman's ironic reaction to the death of her husband. This piece of literature is the story of an hour of Mrs. Mallard’s different and troublesome emotions after her husband’s death, which further explains...

  58. Essay Topics

    and Music: Gangsta culture and Hip Hop/How Hip-hop evolved as a genre/JRR Tolkein and CS Lewis: Mutually influential?/Anatomy of Irony/Wizard of Oz—Allegory of U.S. coming of Age/Post-Apocalypse NOW—an analysis of shape and significance of the genre/ Sherlock Series/Jerry Seinfeld and Oscar Wilde???/ future...

  59. The Inca Empire

    greatest city of the Incas. Manco Capac then came forth from Lake Titicaca and headed to Cuzco via underground caves. He finally arrived with his brothers and all of their wives/sisters to the cave of Pacariqtamba in the Valley of Cuzco. After defeating his three brothers, who turned to stone after death...

  60. The Southern Gothic Symbolism

    "A Rose for Emily" is perhaps the quintessential example of Southern-Gothic literature and an effective allegory of the relations between the north and south during Faulkner's time. The story is one of Faulkner's more accessible works and while it lacks the strange twisting of As I Lay Dying or the inventiveness...