In Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," Socrates is saying that their were some men who were chained in prison from child childhood and never know the out side world an it's beauty and what it have to offer, By only been in their own little world all that time, only seeing "men passing along the wall carrying all sort of vessels, and states and figures of animal made of wood and stone and various materials, which appear over the wall? some of them talking, other silent." When one was realest and see the out side world beauty and understand what it have to offer, came back to enlighten his friends instead they persecuted him and made fun of him telling him that he is slow cause he cant play their of shadow description.
I do agree that they would think that the shadow are the ones talking, cause they do not know any better and do not understand that their is mush of a bigger world then what they know to be in the prison-house. The house prison is the being at home but yet still in prison, you are at comfort in the state but u do not know that it is prison been confined in one place not knowing that you are being blind to the truth.
By use the prisoner as an example in that we humans have in prion out self in our own walls and ignore the truth an any one who have come to enlighten us are out cast and ridicule for example the prisoner who have been released out the the new world an seen their is more to life than show and the distinct feature to the shadow and the make fun of him and tell him that ever scene he went out to the light above he is not slow an he do not know any thing an he should go back to were he came from.
By not conceive to what they know everyone reject what new knowledge he have to offer to them and is willing to say in the dark cause they are afraid of new thing they do not know what new an wonderfully thing we have. Socrated is saying that we trap our mind in places of comfort/ prison-house and is blinding an unwilling to learn know thing an people that are different.
Hello Jamel my name is Giovanni I was assigned to read your summary and post my feedback,I hope it helps you out
ReplyDelete1. Is the main idea (thesis) of the passage clearly and correctly stated?
The main idea of the passage is not correctly stated but it is clearly stated and understandable even though there were a couple of spelling errors
2. Are the important supporting ideas stated correctly and fully?
The important supporting ideas are stated fully and correctly but again many spelling and grammatical errors I was able to understand what you were trying to say though
3. Are all (or nearly all) unimportant ideas excluded?
Yes there were no unimportant ideas included it had all the details necessary
4. Is the summary in the writer’s own words?
The summary is not your own words, you’re not supposed to copy a quote directly from the text
5. Is the summary written with few grammar/spelling/style errors?
No there were many spelling and grammatical errors in your summary which made it somewhat hard to read though I was able to understand what you wrote try to work on your sentence structure next time.
6. Does the summary retain the sense and organization of the original passage?
Your summary did have somewhat organization of the original passage the transition of ideas was very good
7. Is personal opinion included in the summary?
Yes your personal opinion was included in the summary it was a big chunk of your summary actually that’s not something I recommend you do in the future.