Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Summary of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” part 2


Summary of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”
In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” Socrates describes how a person in the outside world is can be different from a person in a prison house. In a prison-house, vary little things are around you,a have a fire which give light,a light wall which shows the shadows of the people walking. As a prisoner he doesn't know what the shadows are,he just knows it comes by once or twice and that the only thing that entertains him. A prisoner may know more about what around him than the outside because he has been in the place for a long time that he has surrounded. A person whom is in the outside knows more about nature and other things than the prisoner in the inside. When we first start facing truth,the process may be frighting,and many people run back to their old lives.  Is a prisoner any different from an outside person?
My Place in the Cave
Is a prisoner any different from an outside person? In my belief "maybe".why? Because when you become a prisoner for a long time nothing is going to change your still human you are just missing out on thing that are happening but when you get out you are going to question many thing and it going to make people think you are a crazy person.Am a prisoner who is still chained and see the shadows every day and think about what it is and what is making it happen about once a day.i challenge my friends when a shadow comes bye we try to gust what it is but for it seems that every time one comes by it a different one meaning. Theirs nothing new around me nothing to remember nothing to small and nothing to look forward to because nothing happen expert for shadows coming bye.As a prisoner  i did lean anything till i got release and started seeing and asking question.The sun thought me a lot of thing i need to know about the place am standing just bye see it,now i understand what the shadows that was passing means and i try to tell my friends what it means but i thought about it and decided not to tell cause it going to be new to them and their not going to know what am trying to tell them.Am a prisoner who is still chained and see the shadows every day and think about what it is and what is making it happen about once a day.I challenge my friends when a shadow comes by,we try to gust what it is but for it seems that every time one comes by it a different one and different meaning.Theirs nothing new around me nothing to remember nothing look forward to because nothing happen expert for shadows comes by.
   
"And if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a paining his eyes which will make him turn away to take in the objects of vision which he can see and which he will conceive to be in reality clearer than the thing which are now being shown to him?"I agree with this Quote because as a prisoner i was in the dork for a long time and when i got release and looked up into the sky the sun it was so bright that my eyes started to burn.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
What evidence in your life supports your claim that you are where you are? The evidence that show am at the right place is the people around me because i kinder look like them human even know am a prisoner am still human, so by seeing human on the planet am at the right place.

My opinion is there is know different between these two people the only different is one is in one place which their nothing to discover and one is in a place of new things happen everyday.

1 comment:

  1. A good revision, especially the summary, but the response could use more concrete detail--what are the shadows, for example, in your life?

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