Our understanding of what is reality and what is altered, lead us to believe that the world we see is far from the truth. “The Allegory of The Cave”, written by Plato is based upon the reality the prisoners believe they live in, which in truth, is far from the actual world itself. The shadows portrayed to the prisoners by the puppeteers, reconstruct their minds making them distort their sense on what is ethical. This correlates to society today, based on how people see what they want to see, even if it is not reality. The prisoners in the cave compare to society today by revealing true life could be an altered reality, displayed through symbols and allegories showing what we do not know about the world around us. The prisoners are conditioned
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At the present time, people portray themselves on social media as something far from what they really are, resulting in a better life to be displayed. For young people especially, online platform is essential and having the most envied life becomes a standard to live up to, resulting in the life shown to be different than the one being liven. It is common currently for people to post and share a life that is somewhat different from their own, to modify their reality making it viewed as a near perfect one. Similarly, in the short story ‘The Velt’, the children become consumed with the virtual room with images of realistic things on the walls, causing them to become attached to the false world. When the children realize that the virtual room is more ideal than the real world, it consumes them to a point where they favor its presence more than their actual parents. ‘The Velt’ portrays a situation in which young children fall towards the benefits of the virtual world, enough so that they chose it over reality. Additionally, the movie The Truman Show shows the life of a man who lives in a false reality that he believes to be true, causing himself, and even the viewers of the movie, to question their existence entirely. In ‘The Truman Show’, Truman Burbank is a man whose whole life is a reality show; however, he does not know he is taking part in this production. This compares to ‘The Allegory of The Cave’, in the sense that both Truman and the prisoners think that their lives are true, which is far from the reality. The world we live in could for all we know be false, for in the end, nothing is ever proven to be
At the present time, people portray themselves on social media as something far from what they really are, resulting in a better life to be displayed. For young people especially, online platform is essential and having the most envied life becomes a standard to live up to, resulting in the life shown to be different than the one being liven. It is common currently for people to post and share a life that is somewhat different from their own, to modify their reality making it viewed as a near perfect one. Similarly, in the short story ‘The Velt’, the children become consumed with the virtual room with images of realistic things on the walls, causing them to become attached to the false world. When the children realize that the virtual room is more ideal than the real world, it consumes them to a point where they favor its presence more than their actual parents. ‘The Velt’ portrays a situation in which young children fall towards the benefits of the virtual world, enough so that they chose it over reality. Additionally, the movie The Truman Show shows the life of a man who lives in a false reality that he believes to be true, causing himself, and even the viewers of the movie, to question their existence entirely. In ‘The Truman Show’, Truman Burbank is a man whose whole life is a reality show; however, he does not know he is taking part in this production. This compares to ‘The Allegory of The Cave’, in the sense that both Truman and the prisoners think that their lives are true, which is far from the reality. The world we live in could for all we know be false, for in the end, nothing is ever proven to be