Wednesday, December 11, 2013

This class buffet is definitely the best I've ever seen, but I'm pretty sure I developed diabetes haha.

Monday, December 2, 2013

PRACTICE ESSAY

People judge every action you make everyday, good or bad, people judge people, it is in human nature. A person can be judged by one simple action they make by somebody they don't even know, and they automatically have an idea of what they think that person is like. They way people react to something has to do with the environment they come from. The characters in "Allegory" and "No Exit" each are very similar in the fact that each author uses similar literary elements and techniques such as imagery to portray the story to the reader.

In Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" the prisoners have been so underexposed to anything except being shackled in a cave until finally one prisoner breaks free and realizes to look beyond his own reality. If there was a loud crash outside the cave per say, the prisoner that now is curious and has more than one point of view and way of thinking in the world would most likely be curious to the situation and would want to go see what it was that caused the loud crash whereas the other prisoners would not because they are not aware of anything beyond the cave and the way they have lived their entire lives.

If you were to take the same scenario and place Garcin from Estelle's "No Exit", the opposite reaction than that of the free prisoner from "Allegory." Garcin knows his current reality, but he refuses to except that it is his reality. Garcin would hear the loud crash, but then probably think nothing of it because he doesn't want to face the truth of the situation.

You can take one hundred people and place them in the same situation, but how they interpret the situation are each going to be different, people may have similar interpretations but they still will have their own individual opinions and thoughts. This was clearly displayed by the authors of "Allegory" and "No Exit" because the characters have similar reactions, yet they are so different at the same time.