Plato's Myth of the cave

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Plato's "Myth of the cave" is an argument that we can't be sure we know reality. This story illustrates Plato's idealism. The objects we see, hear, touch are shadows of the real things. The reason is human beings don't have a full sense of a real and complete life because of the world. We only know and believe what is shown or expose to us. 

In this story, Plato used a dialog between a teacher and student, it describes a group of prisoners chained inside a cave, sit behind a fire, they can't see each other or the nature of reality, or the heavens, only able to look forward. The fire casts shadows on the cave wall, which they see and it is the only reality they know. They can't truly comprehend what they see, as they are prevented from its true source and nature. One day one of the prisoners having managed to free himself from his chains escape from the cave and see the truth. He will at first be blinded by the brightness of the world. But after some time and effort, he will be able to see anything that resembled what he knew as reality before. But the prisoner didnt believe anything he sees ant sticks to his perception towards the world as before. He has been exposed to the same illusion for so long that he cant accept any new facts in a sudden moment.

In my class last week, we had to find a movie or a situation that can relate to this method in order to help us understand more about Plato's "Myth of the cave". Before that Mr. Mark, our lecturer had shown a scene from the movie The Matrix, where Morphius introduced the concept of the Matrix to Neo.

Anna and the King

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I chose the movie Anna and The King as the movie that I can relate to this method. In this movie, it shows that The King of Thailand exposing false facts about Thailand. He says things like that Thailand is the strongest power in the world and there are no such thing is a phenomenon of  seasons. Anna acts as the old man from this theory who freed the people of Thailand from the illusions of the King. The King's role in this method is the puppet players and the whole kingdom acts as the fire that projects the all the King's illusions.