In Plato’s Allegory of the cave, the main philosophy is centred on the idea of illusion overlapping the reality that exists outside a person’s psychic. This type of notion set forth by Plato during the Renaissance is also modishly mimicked in The Truman show. Plato’s Allegory of the cave describes the nature of human understanding and what humans perceive to be truth in accordance to their knowing can be just illusory. Humans perceive illusions as reality because of the limitations that are posed by human senses, which define, narrow and confine the self-intellect. The Truman show, and Plato’s Allegory of the cave, present three elemental qualities, symbolism, the theme, and the setting that define the philosophical concepts which culminate
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In Plato’s work the sun is portrayed as the symbol of true divine knowledge. In the Allegory of the cave, prisoners are prisoned inside a cave their whole life, they know nothing outside the cave. The only thing they know is what they can perceive with their senses in inside the cave, such as shadows of objects outside the cave and blurred voices they can hear with the ears. Their curiosity is limited by the chains so knowing more through exploration is non-existent. Now through all this a prisoner manages to escape and get out of the cave, that prisoner will be overwhelmed by the light outside the cave, and slowly “he would come to the conclusion that the sun produces the seasons and years and it controls everything in the visible world. He will understand that it is in a way the cause of everything that he and his fellow prisoners use to see” (Stickney 12). Now for this escaped prisoner, knowing the nature of the sun will be true knowledge. The symbol of the sun in The Truman show is not as direct in its meaning as in The Allegory of the Cave, but it does pose a symbolic philosophical …show more content…
The setting is formed in accordance to the time both works were written, this is the case because the people at the time who read or heard the work could understand the situation better if the setting was in sync with the time. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, written during the period of the Renaissance has a setting which is very much prehistoric in its form. The setting is mostly around nature, such as caves, trees, water and the sky. At that time the general population would find it easier to “imagine there men living at the bottom of an underground cave whose entrance is a long passageway that rises up through the ground outside” (Stickney 11). The use of a natural surrounding is much more effective in conveying the main theoretical idea behind Plato’s philosophical assumption. Such as a dark- cave and light- shining above it, gives the idea of a different realm outside what humans live, this type of imagery was more effective for the people at the time. In the Truman Show, the cave is the dome, which is mimicked as the real world outside the dome. In one scene the movie reveals that Truman is living inside a dome as the camera zooms outside the dome, it shows how the dome is placed inside a larger but similar world (Weir, The Truman show).The dome is imaged as the modern world, as the movie is made
In Plato’s work the sun is portrayed as the symbol of true divine knowledge. In the Allegory of the cave, prisoners are prisoned inside a cave their whole life, they know nothing outside the cave. The only thing they know is what they can perceive with their senses in inside the cave, such as shadows of objects outside the cave and blurred voices they can hear with the ears. Their curiosity is limited by the chains so knowing more through exploration is non-existent. Now through all this a prisoner manages to escape and get out of the cave, that prisoner will be overwhelmed by the light outside the cave, and slowly “he would come to the conclusion that the sun produces the seasons and years and it controls everything in the visible world. He will understand that it is in a way the cause of everything that he and his fellow prisoners use to see” (Stickney 12). Now for this escaped prisoner, knowing the nature of the sun will be true knowledge. The symbol of the sun in The Truman show is not as direct in its meaning as in The Allegory of the Cave, but it does pose a symbolic philosophical …show more content…
The setting is formed in accordance to the time both works were written, this is the case because the people at the time who read or heard the work could understand the situation better if the setting was in sync with the time. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, written during the period of the Renaissance has a setting which is very much prehistoric in its form. The setting is mostly around nature, such as caves, trees, water and the sky. At that time the general population would find it easier to “imagine there men living at the bottom of an underground cave whose entrance is a long passageway that rises up through the ground outside” (Stickney 11). The use of a natural surrounding is much more effective in conveying the main theoretical idea behind Plato’s philosophical assumption. Such as a dark- cave and light- shining above it, gives the idea of a different realm outside what humans live, this type of imagery was more effective for the people at the time. In the Truman Show, the cave is the dome, which is mimicked as the real world outside the dome. In one scene the movie reveals that Truman is living inside a dome as the camera zooms outside the dome, it shows how the dome is placed inside a larger but similar world (Weir, The Truman show).The dome is imaged as the modern world, as the movie is made