Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Parallels Between The Truman Show and Platos Allegory of the Cave Essa
Parallels Between The Truman provide and Platos emblem of the CaveThe movie, The Truman Show is about a heartyity television show that has been created to record the life of a man who, adopted at birth by a television network, is tricked into believing that his life, his reality, is normal and the environment that he lives is real. It is pock in a town called Seahaven, which is essentially a simulation of the real world similar enough to the outside world that the viewing hearing can relate to it. The town is a television studio privileged an enormous dome in which the weather, the sun, the sky, and all the actions of the citizens are direct by a team of special effects people. The entire show is directed and produced by the creator of the show, Christof. Truman Burbank, the star of the show, is the only one who doesnt know that he lives in a giant studio and is surrounded by an legerdemain of reality. The entire world watches Trumans movements twenty four hours a day, seven eld a week through the use of thousands of miniature hidden cameras.The Truman Show closely parallels Platos Allegory of the Cave. Initially, Truman is trapped in his own cave a carry set or fictional island known as Seahaven. Truman?s trip or ascension into the real world and into knowledge is similar to that of Plato?s cave dweller. Truman, much like the prisoners in the cave, would know no residuum then what they have been taught or shown to be the real world their substantial lives. If T...
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