As a result, one has to question their vision every time a brand new idea is presented in front of their eyes. Similarly, in the essay "Allegory of the Cave," Greek philosopher Plato's thoughts correlate with Thoreau but in a more pessimistic way as he portrays humans are deprived of their freedom to turn their heads and what they are seeing is limited to what is in front of them and will continue to live this way as long as humans don't see the reality of things. ... The Author would say to her readers, if one wants to see truly, then they must go backward to the early sta...

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In front of the fire is a partial wall next to the wall are people moving puppets and creating a shadow of the puppets, (Plato 211). ... This is the stages where our curiosity increases, eager to know more. ... In that time My brother was like the prisoner who had knew about the reality and I was like the prisoner who was still in chains and I was only able to see what was in front of me. ...

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They are trained to accept and yield to what lies in front of them, but not to reflect upon and get to the root of the phenomenon. ... Contemplation itself brings no fruit at all, it is considered as the utmost annoyance to pragmatic persons, and as I've brought out before, not every single human being is qualified to this task, because some of us are bound to detract during certain stages from the thoroughfare of this pilgrimage, and fail to envision what lies ahead. ...

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"Honesty is the best policy" is an accurate representation of what everybody should base their being on, even 'little white lies' will collapse right in front of you. ... Happiness is within all of us, when one is going through an episode of not achieving true happiness everyone can pull through that rough stage and get complete peace of mind. ...

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