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Name Tutor Course Date Allegory of the Cave Plato’s theory of forms is that we live in a lesser and imperfect world and that whatever we perceive is not true because of distortions. According to Plato, true forms only exist in the perfect universe. Plato’s allegory is a picture of chained prisoners forced to look at a wall where shadows of real objects fall in a cave. The prisoners grow believing the shadows to be true objects. When one of the prisoners is cut free and allowed to see the outside world, he is shocked to realize he has been observing parts of reality. When the prisoner returns to the cave and reports all the beautiful things he had seen, the other prisoners kill him...

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Number Date Excessive Thirst for Knowledge as the Means of Self-Destruction Knowledge has always been treated with caution as a major source of power. While knowledge itself is not dangerous, but often potentially helpful in avoiding danger, thirst for knowledge, if excessive, can be damaging because it either causes a person to rationalize everything (subsequently destroying their morals) or creates additional anxiety within them that affects their entire personality. The word “knowledge” here can be understood in two dimensions: knowledge as competence (a high level of awareness in a certain field) or as awareness of certain facts that...

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Name Date Quotes Comparison American playwright Tennessee Williams once wrote that” We are all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life” (1). In his context, solitary confinement means a cage or rather a prison of loneliness. The American playwright meant that human beings are prisoners to the state of loneliness in their lives. Being lonely is a state of mind that can eat away someone despite the fact that they have their friends and families on their side. It is a state that anyone can easily experience in their lives as it is also inevitable. However, sometimes the state of being lonely can be as a result of an...

Name: Course: Institution: Date: Slavery Slavery has been an emotive issue when it comes to the American population. The field of literature has made efforts to try and educate the world on the age of slavery. That is meant to show the effects of slavery as well as discourage the society from such. Paul Laurence Dunbar comes up with a poem to ensure that he can explain the difficulties the black community faced during the slave era. He is also able to bring out the issue of race and how it played into slavery as well as the inclusion of other aspects of identity such as sexuality and gender. This paper will focus on the poem and how it is able to tell the slave narrative and its relationship...