Compare And Contrast Allegory Of The Cave And How It Feels To Be Colored Me

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Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and Hurston’s “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”, both share the same concept where individuals worlds of theirs are not the way they used to think. Plato and Hurston have different perspectives to elaborate this concept. However, both telling us to have more self confidence and just be ourselves. The society we live isn't always leading to the right path, what we need is to distinguish that is right and wrong. Hurston mentions in “How It Feel to Be Colored Me”, the town she used to live as a “negro” town, which reflects to the cave. Cave is the place where people blocked the outside world from themselves. Not only the encourage walking out of it, but also the challenge of accepting the new world require enormous faith. Therefore, there are plenty of different voices once you accept the new world. We often lose ourselves by believing in the others. It is what Hurston has been telling the readers : Believe in yourself and be more acceptable to the world. …show more content…

People were blindsided by the life they are used to. Meeting different group of people isn't really a big kind of challenge for Hurston, so did the old prisoners meet the world outside of the cave. When those prisoners came back to the cave, it was the real challenge. To what they should believe in, they couldn’t tell what is right. Nevertheless, both stand a solid point of view that we need to believe in what we believe. What everyone else is doing except for yourself isn't always the

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