Walt Disney Pictures released Moana in theaters on November 23, 2016. Moana begins with an ancient Polynesian story about a goddess named Te Fiti, who cursed the sea with monsters and all islands with a darkness when Maui, a demigod, stole her heart (Clements). Moana’s tribe legend is that the ocean will one day pick someone to find Maui, so he can return Te Fiti’s heart and heal the islands (Clements). After the legend is told, the main character Moana is introduced as a toddler, standing by the ocean and it is revealed that she has been chosen as the one to return Te Fiti her heart; however, it takes years for her to discover that this is why she feels a pull to the ocean (Clements). Despite their depleting coconut and fish supply; Moana’s …show more content…
However, their reality is not the truth. Moana’s island is like the cave; her people are stuck on that island because her tribe’s reality is that the ocean is dangerous. Moana’s tribe fears the ocean, and even though their fishing grounds are becoming bare, they are afraid to sail beyond the reef (Clements). Moana’s people know the legends that the ocean is crawling with monsters that take no pity on people sailing the ocean. The legends that create the fear of the ocean are like the shadows casted on the wall for the prisoner’s in Plato’s cave. Reality is something that is established by the mind, what a person knows to be the truth is what they believe is real. The legend has created a wall between the tribe and the ocean because it is what the people believed to be true. Reality for a person can be changed because of something that is said, or in Moana’s case, a story told. Moana’s peoples’ reality is not sailing the sea to find food, for the people it is staying on the island and worrying about the end of their food supply. Unlike other people in her tribe, Moana feels like there is something more outside her island. Like Moana, the prisoners could be feeling that maybe there was something more than just the cave (Powell 41). Moana’s pull to the ocean is her own way of looking beyond the shadows …show more content…
When Plato’s prisoner that is chosen leaves the cave and sees the sun for the first time, he is in shock that his former reality is false (451). Like the prisoner, the islanders are timid towards the ocean because the stories that they are told as children is what they know to be true (Clements). Moana’s people have a tough time realizing that the ocean is not as dangerous as they have been taught (Clements). Moana’s people grew to fear the ocean and the monsters within, and it is cowardice, according to Kant, that is what keeps a person from becoming enlightened (1). Because Moana’s people are frightened by the ocean, they cannot be enlightened until someone comes out of “the cave” to find the truth beyond the reef of their island. Moana may be viewed as the curious prisoner from Plato’s cave; she has a constant urge to be on the ocean and find out what is out there (Clements). Moana is the minority in her tribe; while everyone is obeying the law about staying away from the dangerous ocean, she is trying to find a way to go deeper into the sea (Clements). Kant argues, “Enlightenment is the human being’s emergence from his self-incurred minority” (1). Moana wants to be enlightened; she is not afraid of the ocean, and she sees a reason to go out onto the sea
The author in this novel has very subtly used the settings to build up the atmosphere of adventure and suspense. For example, ‘Damall’s island rested on stone, Boulders edged the island, and rose up out of the ground in unexpected places all across it. the harbor beach was made up of stones as sharp as shells, as if a giant had brought his hammer down on the boulders, and shattered them. (page 3-4)’.This description of Damall’s island instantly makes the readers visualize the island and makes them curious to carry on. The mention of the stones and the boulders shows the ruggedness of the terrain and at the same time implies the hard life that the boys have to live there. It acts as imagery to show the cruelty of the Damall and his tyrannical behavior towards the boys. In conclusion
Moana shows non-conformity in the start of the film when her father is telling her that she will become the chief of the island of Motunui. However, Moana ignores him and goes out sailing past the reef against her father's orders. Moana realized that there's more to her life than staying on the island and that she had sailing in her blood and wasn’t about to let her father stand in her way. She wasn't about to let her life be controlled by
Plato is one of the most familiar and commonly studied philosophers. His work is of the highest intelligence and full of thought-provoking attributes. Plato’s “Allegory Of The Cave” is perhaps one of the works most easily related to life. This allegory creates a sense of advancing into the “light” of understanding and knowledge.
The world outside the cave represents paradise some might call it even, some might call it enlightenment, etc. I believe it is a representation of Valhalla in its own essence because the good must suffer to reach it or wherever they wish to go .This is why I think the prisoner shirks away from Plato's version of a philosophical heaven ,because when the prisoner arrives he feels pain at the blinding light the pain he is feeling is his illusions falling away, which can be very painful if you are emotionally attached to your beliefs or have philosophical phobias .Very much similar to the pain ,fear and hatred caused by Socrates attempts to enlighten the Athenians resulting in his death. Much like the prisioner in the cave
To sum up, "Turtle Island" features characters who struggle in the cultural; it included gangs, drugs, and violence. The narrator who was only 11 years old was a rebellious and impulsive person who was against cultural belief. He was just a little boy and considered questions that depended on his own opinion, so he could not think like an adult. The mind can easy to change depend on his thought. In the end, of the story, he had chosen to become a person who was brave, powerful and
In his Allegory Plato shows us how a man ascends from the darkness of a cave to the light of the outside world. In this ascent Plato’s man passes through four distinct stages of cognition: from imagination, to belief, understanding, and finally knowledge.
...so much that anything that they see in the dark, they imagine it as the beast. Therefore, the fear of the beast is the most dangerous and destructive force on the island.
“The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.
Now, the fear moves on from what they think. is the beast to something much more dangerous. Now, they are afraid of each other. At first, the island was thought to be a paradise for the boys. It is a dream come true.
The paradisiacal kingdom under the sea is symbolic of childhood. At the onset of the story, the sea kingdom is described: “where the waters are as blue as the petals of the cornflower and as clear as glass, there, where no anchor can reach the bottom,” and where “[one] would have to pile many church towers on top of each other” in order to reach the surface (Andersen 217). The sea describes the deep consciousness of the Little Mermaid as a young child, which is characterized by emotion, beauty, imagination, purity and innocence - representative successively of the water, flowers, the imaginative sim...
In Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening, the protagonist Enda Pontellier experiences internal conflict as she journeys to her self-discovery. As she becomes aware of her supressed being within society and distances herself away in solitude, Enda is able to discover her essential self. Symbols and imagery such as the sea and the birds along with the physical setting of the novel, are constantly repeated in Chopin’s novel in order to demonstrate Enda’s progression to discovering her essential self and ultimately her spiritual awakening.
Now we can picture it that one of these prisoners was librated. First, the prisoner sees the statues and fire that is causing shadows. However, he then believes and sees the shadows as reality and the statues plus bright fire as illusions. Next, when he fined his way out of the cave then he saw true objects for the time. The true objects signify the ideal forms, which are not visible to us. In order words, this was the juncture of the intelligible world. Moreover, this prisoner had gladly and willing...
They are facing the wall, they are unable to move or see anything besides the shadows of their own bodies, puppets and objects, which are intentionally substituted by other people. The shadows appear on the wall from the fire that burns behind them. Prisoners can also hear the sound of an echo that reflects from the wall. The only reality that they know and are aware of, are the shadows that they see and the echo that they hear. Everything changes when one of them have a chance to leave the cave and finds out what the truth is and how the world looks like. The process of finding out the truth is not easy, it is quite painful and overwhelming. It takes time for a prisoner to adjust and comprehend the new information, considering the fact that knowledge that he had was far from the truth. What is even more challenging, is the posture of the prisoner after discovering the reality, who has to go back where he came from. He does not agree to live in denial for the rest of his life with other prisoners who believe in the shadows. Since he discovered what the truth is, he does not want to be fed up with lies anymore. (Plato
Aloha from the people of Hawaii and their culture! Have you ever wanted to visit Hawaii for fun activities, or to enjoy the amazing sights? Well, then Hawaii is a great travel destination! However, if you were to visit the islands, it would be great to learn a little about its people and culture! Luckily that’s exactly what we are going to talk about, so you can get to know the people of these magnificent islands a bit better. The culture of the native Hawaiian people is very colorful and unique because of its cuisine, hula dances, and religion.
When the children become stranded on the island, the rules of society no longer apply to them. Without the supervision of their parents or of the law, the primitive nature of the boys surfaces, and their lives begin to fall apart. The downfall starts with their refusal to gather things for survival. The initial reaction of the boys is to swim, run, jump, and play. They do not wish to build shelters, gather food, or keep a signal fire going. Consequently, the boys live without luxury that could have been obtained had they maintained a society on the island. Instead, these young boys take advantage of their freedom and life as they knew it deteriorates.