Comparing Jonathan Livingston Seagull And The Myth Of The Cave

My father was right. I must forget this foolishness. I must fly home to the Flock and be content as I am, as a poor limited seagull." After failing again Jonathan gave up on flying and decided to live as a normal seagull, he would fly as a normal seagull flies. He started reprehending himself for not being normal and suddenly he realized what he had done wrong, why he would always crash.

He wants to experience the freedom of flight enjoyed by other bird species. Opposed by everyone, including his own family, Jonathan experiments, often disastrously, until he figures out the dynamics of flight and practices its techniques to perfection. Hoping to share these revelations with others, Jonathan is surprised to be condemned for unorthodoxy by the Elders and exiled to the Far Cliffs. He further refines his flying abilities during a long, solitary but satisfying life, lamenting only that he has not been able to share the truth with others. Two shining gulls appear to him in old age, offering to take him to new heights and a new

Daedalus further tires to teach his son by telling him “don’t go too low, or water will weigh you down; don’t’ go too high, or the sun’s fire will burn them” (pg.188). Again, here Daedalus’ repetition of the word “d... ... middle of paper ... ...r chose to ignore it, until “the blue sea hushed him”. Brueghel and Auden contrast Ovid’s myth, as they focus on human’s apathy to suffering. In “The Fall of Icarus”, Brueghel focused his entire piece on the spectators and the landscape, and Icarus was only the backdrop. Auden, similarly to Brueghel focuses on the mundane activities done by spectators and on their indifference to Icarus ‘suffering.

He describes this as the condemened man, immidiately before he gets executed has the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. As many people were ushered into camps in the beginning, many people hung on to these shreds of hope and believed that these camps wouldn’t be so bad. In this phase people were just beginning to see how bad things were. Frankl tell of how he read somewhere that man cannot live without a stated number of hours—“Quite wrong!”, He says.

After Huck asks Tom why he tried to free a free slave, and Tom told him about how they’d become heroes and what not, Tom says to himself, “But I reckened it was about as well the way it was”(pg.291). Here, we see that Huck has really become dormant in his own thinking, and seeks to know what others like Tom think. Interestingly, by the end of the novel he has become somewhat submissive and willing to listen to what he is told to do, but still with an overall heightened sense of morality that developed throughout his adventures. It’s natural for humans to forget about finding our own opinions, especially when surrounding by people who tell them what they should think and what is good for them or bad for them. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn conveys this idea even further, showing how a young boy living alone learns what he truly believes in, regardless of what he was raised to believe.

But breaking free could change the perception about the world and feel truly free. Plato also argues that we are the cave slaves. We live in a world of shadows, where we don't see the reality of ideas. However, it is possible to climb out of the cave, to be released from our shackles but it’s difficult. And when we ( s... ... middle of paper ... ...nnot escape it.

To explain his reasoning, he says “To what extent do we allow ourselves to become imprisoned by docilely accepting the roles others assign us or, indeed, choose to remain prisoners because being passive and dependent frees us from the need to act and be responsible for our actions (117).” Through Zimbardo 's viewpoint, Dawson and Downey were nothing more than ordinary men who were placed in an extreme role and were radically changed to assume that role. Much like how the guards changed in The Stanford Prison Experiment, Dawson and Downey were changed through the pressures of the military, and took the responsibility of the Code Red too

Being away from your comfort zone and starting with something new. I can relate this experience with the prisoner’s experience when given freedom. Socrates explains here one moral of the story where the prisoners needed more knowledge than what they have in the cave, “So now, I replied, watch the process whereby the prisoners are set free from their chains and, along with that, cured of their lack of insight, and likewise consider what kind of lack of insight must be if the following were to happen to those who were chained” (Allegory of the Cave). We are both scared and frightened with the new experiences that we have to face since we are not in chains anymore. We needed to start somewhere new without the help of others because we are given the freedom we desired from the beginning, even if this was not what we expected it to be.

In this speech he also starts to plan a “voyage” to get Telemachus safely home. Lines 384-387 he tells the audience about his plan, what he needs, what he wants, and what he will do to get Telemachus home. Through Homer’s use of a rhetorical strategy he makes Eurymachus try to convince Penelope that he is a good suitor and she sho... ... middle of paper ... ... has returned to Ithaca. Homer uses rhetorical strategies through these speeches to persuade their audience to take either of the three suitors idea. Eurymachus planned to get Telemachus home as fast as he could right after he heard that Telemachus was back in Ithaca.

A young seagull who loves to fly is banished from his flock, but after mastering flight, returns to share these new discoveries with his old flock. A man kept imprisoned in a dark cave is introduced to the outside world, and later returns to the cave to tell his fellow prisoners about it. On the surface, both Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach and “The Myth of the Cave” by Plato have almost childishly simple plots. In both, a character leaves his home, learns something, and returns. However, these stories gain a deeper significance when the reader views them as allegories.