In this blog post I am going to be comparing the messages in Plato's cave with the two films we had watched, “Miss Representation” and ‘The Mask You Live In”.
In plato’s cave it seemed to be that the prisoners have been locked away their whole life so they don’t know any better and think that, that is a normal way to treat someone. This explains that when the one prisoner got to experience the world and came back describing what he had discovered, none of the other prisoners could understand what he was saying. I feel like this relates to the two films because we grow up with our families and the media creating these stereotypes about men and women and we believe that it is normal to view women as “weak” or think that it is not okay for men to cry. I also think the two films could relate to plato’s cave in a way that each shadow on the wall represents a person and the prisoners are society interpreting each shadow without actually knowing who that person is nor having basic knowledge about them.
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alaina kimmel
4/8/2019 05:28:43 pm
How can we break these negative assumptions of both men and women?
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Kenya McDuffie
4/8/2019 05:50:40 pm
I also think the two films could relate to plato’s cave in a way that each shadow on the wall represents a person and the prisoners are society interpreting each shadow without actually knowing who that person is nor having basic knowledge about them - " Alaina Kimmel " good point made.
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Daniel
4/8/2019 08:48:31 pm
I agree that the slaves who never got to leave are society that is the same connection I made.
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