Allegory and Truman Show Essay -- Allegory Cave Truman Show Essays

Allegory and Truman ShowThe Allegory of the Cave has many parallels with The Truman Show. Initially, Truman is trapped in his testify spelunk a film set or fictional island known as Seahaven. Trumans journey or ascension into the real world and into knowledge is sympathetic to that of Platos cave dweller. In this paper, I will discuss these similarities along with the very intent of both of these works whose purpose is for us to question our own candor. In his Allegory Plato shows us how a man ascends from the darkness of a cave to the light of the outside world. In this ascent Platos man passes through with(predicate) four distinct stages of cognition from imagination, to belief, understanding, and finally knowledge. Imagination In this first stage of cognition, the cave dweller is shackled and can only see shadows of figures on the wall in front of him. His reality is based on his imagination of these figures. To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shado ws of the images. Similarly, Trumans reality is based on this imaginary world where his parents, wife, and everyone else around him are hired actors. Early in the film Truman seems to be happy although he is already outset to imagine himself in Fiji which he points out is the furthest place from Seahaven. Belief In the second stage, the cave dweller can now see the objects that previously only appeared to him as shadows. Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer th...