Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and the film, "The Truman Show," have many similarities in which both encourage its audience to question what they perceive as reality. Plato's Allegory of the Cave is used to illustrate the physical world as an illusion, the cave signifying the world, the prisoners representing the people who inhabit the world and the shadows representative of everything that the people see such as objects and their surrounding as real. ... The Truman show resembles Plato's allegory of the cave as initially Truman is trapped into his own cave and his journey into...

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This is the basic premise for Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which prisoners sit in a cave, chained down, watching images cast on the wall in front of them. ... Accordingly, to break free, we must open our eyes and see the truth about the world around us according to Plato. The truth for Oedipus being that he is a prisoner of his own beliefs just as the men were prisoners of the cave. ... In "Allegory of the Cave" Plato alludes to a direct representation of the human condition of typical behaviors in society. ... In the context of "Allegory of the Cave," Oedipus can be compared to the...

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According to Plato, by nature, human is a political animal. ... He uses the cave allegory to highlight how human beings will not survive the darkness unless they act together and be led by a philosopher king who leads them to the light. ... Since the primitive clans of the cave man to our modern day sophisticated society, politics has always been the fabric of governance. ... Plato has noted that human nature will always be the same although tested by time and change. ... Plato, as a student of Socrates, documented the views and arguments of Socrates in The Republic. ...

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Just like Plato's Meno and Socrate's allegory of the cave, Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Conformist" was a story about moral and educational failure. ... Just like the prisoners in the cave, in Socrates' allegory of the cave, Clerici was uneducated and gullible enough to be influenced by the shadows, or veil of what was considered normal (definitely not child abuse or homosexuality), presented by the puppeteers. ... Clerici fails to see the true nature of marriage, nevertheless of marrying Guilia; like the cave's prisoners, he has been exposed to reality and pr...

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An excerpt from Peter Cave's Should We Save the Jerboa echoes this idea; "Some of us see beauty in sunsets a beauty that is valuable and would still exist even without humans around to appreciate"." (28) It is indisputable that nature is still beautiful even if human beings never existed to appreciate that beauty. ... According to Plato's Crito, "Whatever the popular view is, and whether the alternative is pleasanter than the present one or even harder to bear, the fact remains that to do wrong is in every sense bad and dishonorable for the person who does it"(911). ... In Peter Ca...

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