Every hero embarks on a journey of notable trials and distinguishable tribulations. Every journey contains its plethora of characters and people met along the way. Each character differently contributes to the progression of the hero’s journey. However, despite the various alternate names, places, objects, amongst an abundance of other features of a journey, or the magnitude of the conflict in the journey, every journey and character innately reflect a small piece of the collective template that
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In the final chapter of Anthem, Equality reflects, “The best in me had been my sins and my transgressions”(98). He no longer holds the belief that society is simply ‘misguided’ or that they ‘mean well’. Instead, Prometheus embraces individuality, rejecting the concept that, “We are all in all and all in one” held so dear to his former society(19). “I am done with this creed of corruption,”(97) Equality declares, no longer willing to slave for his brothers. It is this declaration of independence which
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its accuracy. For him the ideas, shaped in the world of ideals, are the absolute truth. To further explain his theory, he adopted the allegory of the cave, where an enlightened philosopher would take the human out of their ignorance and into the "light". Explain the ontological dualism of Plato, the role he has given to the Ideal knowledge, and his of the cave allegory in order to explain his views. C- Ibn Khaldoun presented the first dedicated science to the study of societies. In this science,
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Q.1. Why are we willing to suspend disbelief when we see a play, yet we demand so much more from a film production? Do you think that the limitation on special effects and alternative demand on the audience member to suspend disbelief is a weakness or strength of the theatrical experience? Would you rather see The Tempest on stage or in film? Why? Answer: In a theatrical play, we feel as if we are a part of it. The physical proximity to the “characters”, requires “suspension of disbelief” in order
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In Plato's Cave each allegorical figure represents many different things. The cave represents shelter. The cave is a sense of confinement everything about the cave simply becomes like home. The cave is where the prisoners felt safe even though it was like jail. The sun, well the sun in my opinion is hope to a new life. The sun was a new world nothing like the darkness of the cave. The sun provided hope and new light to a world that didn’t only consist of walls. Shadows now became the physical people
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Realities Two-Way Street Ignorance is bliss. This phrase, however comforting, is a provocative statement to the debilitating state of society and the human state of mind; the dual-edged comment is represented in both Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the Wachoski brother’s The Matrix through universes, similar to our own, where people are in strong states of illusion and ignorance. Both have a character, which is brought to the “light” to realize this false reality and to liberate everyone else
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thinking. This means that Plato’s theory The Allegory of the Cave holds true within Henryson’s fables as one need to escape the cave to discover true enlightenment and
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Simon Blackbum on Plato’s cave Plato was one of the followers of Socrates. The most famous dialogue called “The republic” describes his perfect world that is utopia. He believes that the physical world is illusion and knowledge is directed towards the good thing around the world. “Allegory of the cave ” found in the republic and appearances the theory of forms, that is explains life as composed of two worlds. The physical world is known thorough our experience or sense, and mental world is know
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The movie October Sky contains some interesting philosophical content. The movie takes place in West Virginia in the town of Coalwood in 1957. The town has a coal mine, which employs most of the men who live there. John Hickam is the foreman at the coal mine. John has two sons, and he intends for them both to work in the coal mine. One of his sons, Jim, gets a football scholarship. The other son, Homer, becomes interested in Rockets. In the movie, Homer overcomes many obstacles in order to launch
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option to only doubt everything. In both The Matrix and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Neo and the prisoner were handed the opportunity to see past their false sense of reality. Before this, they were living in a reality that they believed was real. Neo was living a regular life like everyone else, but a part of him felt like something was not right. Morpheus confronted Neo and gave him the option between two pills. In The Allegory of the Cave, the prisoner believed the shadows to be reality until forces
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