Plato's Cave Allegory

Imagination is the beginning of creation.You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. Out of all the stories we have read they all have shown how your imagination overcomes reasoning. In “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, Montressor let his imagination take over him and was planning his revenge by just the thoughts he was getting ,and by that it made him kill a man. In “The fall of the house of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, Roderick’s thoughts made him believe things that aren’t really true and because of that it was damaging him or making him get out of control.. One event that happened in the story was that he thought that his sister was dead and so

Imagination is an intrinsic part of the human experience. It has the power to mold reality by defining the limits of possibility and affecting perception. Both Alan White and Irving Singer examine aspects of this power in their respective works The Language of Imagination and Feeling and Imagination. White delineates how imagination is a necessary precursor to possibility (White 179) while Singer primarily illustrates imagination's effect on human relationships, such as love (Singer 29-48). Despite their different focuses, White and Singer demonstrate the impact that imagination has on human perceptions of reality. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Amelie explores this facet of imagination: the film

Another reason imagination takes over has something to do with experience and maturity. Many people believe that, “...if you’re too young to know monsters are fake, it can be quite traumatic..” (Ringo 92). This is more logical because many children don’t know when something is real or fake just for the simple fact that they’ve never been in that situation. When people experience something that they don’t understand, we imagine that there’s no other way the situation can go but bad instead of thinking it through.

Perception is quite an important piece in real life as well. The power of perceptions is amazing how it can actually help one or bring one down. One has the power to determine the response from events. “Perceptions begin when the human brain receives data from the body’s five sense.” (Enayati, A., 2012, p.2). An example that demonstrates how perception is able to help is Victor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist who lived three years in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Frankl became aware that he had only one freedom during that time which was the freedom to determine his response for a sorrowful truth. To imagine is to have the power to decide the response to events. Frankl decided that he would image seeing his wife, teaching students about what happened during the Holocaust, and the lessons learned while being in camp.

Imagination is used a lot in A Midsummer’s Night Dream to help develop the story. An example of Shakespeare using imagination to help develop the story is when he added fairies to the story which the mortals were unaware of. This added a completely different aspect to the play as it created more complications and helped develop the issues they were facing. For example when Oberon and Titania were fighting over the Indian prince, Oberon ordered Puck his jester to harvest a magical love flower. This love flower caused Demetrius and Lysander who both loved Hermia to both love Helena instead. This caused a lot of conflict and confusion and lead Helena to believe that Lysander, Demetrius and Hermia were trying to make fun of her. “Damn it! I see you’re all determined to gang up on me for a few laughs.” (Sparknotes, 2003:95) all this drama caused by the fairies helped make for a more interesting play and developed the storyline of the play even further.

One of Plato’s more famous writings, The Allegory of the Cave, Plato outlines the story of a man who breaks free of his constraints and comes to learn of new ideas and levels of thought that exist outside of the human level of thinking. However, after having learned so many new concepts, he returns to his fellow beings and attempts to reveal his findings but is rejected and threatened with death. This dialogue is an apparent reference to his teacher’s theories in philosophy and his ultimate demise for his beliefs but is also a relation to the theory of the Divided Line. This essay will analyze major points in The Allegory of the Cave and see how it relates to the Theory of the Divided Line. Also, this

Similarly, one's attitude can be comparable to a prisoner in the cave. When an individual secluded themselves from the outside world, they become dense. They are unwilling to assess or evaluate their outlook or understanding about the world (Plato's Cave Allegory, 10/10/16). One displays a very stubborn attitude. Reluctant to pay attention to other's notion.

As humans, we automatically compare ourselves to other people because of insecurities, and females feel that if they look tall, beautiful, and large-breasted, then they win in life. They feel that they have to look this way to be considered important, beautiful, and they even feel that they have to look like this for a man to have any type of attraction towards them. The fact that women are still compared to societal standards is absolutely absurd. All women do not look as thin as the women they get compared to. Women in America are all different shapes and sizes, so why do they get compared to one certain body type?

A piece of artwork in this case is created and invented in manner that the viewer is lost away from the world of reality. The Invention and Fantasy theme of art uses the concept of imagery as most of this type of art work usually drifts the viewer from the state of reality into the dream world.

An example of imagination

The human brain possesses a special power that enables humans to form wonderful mental images that are not identified through the five senses. These mental images are known as counterfactuals. Counterfactuals can be envisioned in many directions by the visualizer. They can go from dragons to unicorns; from a simple cardboard box to a powerful rocket; from a simple bathtub to the deep blue Atlantic Ocean; from an ordinary closet to an intricate time machine; and endless counterfactuals. All of these unique counterfactuals are visualized through the process of imagination. Imagination allows humans to conjure up images and factual scenarios that do not exist in the actual world. However, in today’s society the practice

Imagination is used when Montresor lures Fortunato into his catacombs. He tells Fortunato that he has a cask of Amontillado that he bought from someone and needs Fortunato’s expert opinion. He pretends to worry about Fortunato’s health just to get Fortunato to keep going deeper into the catacombs. Imagination is also used when Montresor gets rid of his servants without them really knowing that he is getting them out of the house on purpose. He tells them that he will be out all night so they need to stay at the house.

No matter what a man appears like- skinny, fat, short and tall, he is never judged like a women is. Female standards are based solely upon what society thinks is appropriate and they are judged and critiqued for not meeting these ideal body images ("Double Standards"). On the Swimsuit Sport Illustrated magazine

The term ‘imagination’, in turn, is used originally used by Mills (1959) (rather than ‘perspective’), because the concept also fits with cultural and literary understanding. It seeks to combine some of the qualities of art that it prizes (capturing and expressing the needs of the individual), and some qualities already in literature (presenting the social norms that shape individuals), with a “social and historical reality”, a “big picture in which... [individuals] can understand themselves” (Mills, 1959: 20). In this way it hopes to blend “the scientific and the humanistic” (Mills, 1959: 16) to form a comprehensive basis for the study of the social sciences.

In America we don't define our beauty anymore. It's the media that defines what beauty is and this influences our young women on how they view themselves. We tell each other that beauty is only skin deep. But if this was true then why does the media feel its necessary to airbrush all the imperfections that makes that person who they are. Even though the media defines beauty by women being a size smaller than a six the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2001-2010 table represents the average woman is approximately “5'3 and weighs in at 166.2 lbs with a waist of 37.5 inches which is about a size 12-14,” (CDC).