A large fracture in the otherwise solid rock served as entrance to the cave. The opening is a half a foot shorter than Jazzlyn’s five feet six inches, and approximately half as wide. Standing in front of the small threshold, the cool, musty air from inside the chamber leaks out through the crack and pricks her skin. The jagged gap is just big enough for her to squeeze through sideways if she keeps her head ducked down. To Jazzlyn this hardly felt like a challenge.
First, extending her right arm through, followed by her shoulder, leg and hip, she firmly plants her right foot on the ground inside. Angling her body slightly, careful not to drag her skin along the ragged rock, she pulls the rest of her body through the narrow opening.
The distinct change in atmosphere is immediately apparent. The cave’s cold, damp climate is an abrupt contradiction to the warm, dry air she left behind outside. She wrinkles her nose against the musty smell permeating the air of this place. Inside, the cavern is surprisingly spacious. Jazzlyn is able to stretch both arms out to each side and not reach the rock walls that surround her. Several inches of empty space between her head and the ceiling allow her to stand at full height, which is not the case in other more cramped parts of this cave.
From the atrium where she stands, the cave branches out into two tunnels. The one to the right is nearly impassable and though Jazzlyn’s sense of adventure is keen, her sense of self-preservation is keener and she never travels that route. She will find the company she seeks through the path to the left and so she starts in that direction.
Considering the lack of light, she is accustomed; growing up in the darkness of Creperi, Jazzlyn’s ab...
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... out from inside a deep crevice etched into the wall of the cave just next to the table where Jazzlyn sat waiting and hobbles over to her.
“I’m just too excited to see what you’ve brought me, give it to me now please.” His voice rang with anticipation as he shuffles closer to the table.
As promised, Jazzlyn holds up one fisted hand and instructs Zac, “Close your eye’s first, and when you open them they will sparkle with delight.”
Zacrabus does as he is told, and Jazzlyn unclenches her fist to reveal an extra fat fuzzy caterpillar that smells horribly foul. This particular brand of caterpillar releases a sticky substance from the bottom of its feet when it feels threatened that smells like something rotting to most people. Zacrabus on the other hand, is not like most people and the rancid smell this creature produces does not appear to bother him a bit.
Plato’s logical strategy in the allegory of the cave is of deductive reasoning. Plato uses a cave containing people bound by chains which constrict their neck and legs in such a way that they are unable to turn around and there is a fire roaring behind them casting shadows on the wall. Since the prisoners cannot turn their heads to see what is casting the shadow the only thing they can perceive are the shadows and the sounds that seem to becoming from them. This is what Plato argues in the allegory of the cave “To them, I said, the truth would literally be nothing but the shadows of the images.”(The Allegory of the Cave Plato). Since these prisoners know nothing outside of the cave they are ignorant of the “light” and are content on seeing the shadows before them. Plato describes what it would be like for a prisoner to be released and forced to go out of the cave into the light Plato describes it as being “blinding”. Once the freed prisoner became accustomed to the light outside the cave it is believed by Socrates and Glaucon, inside Plato’s allegory that the prisoner would not want to return to the darkness from which he had “ascended”. Once the prisoner has become accustomed to the light Socrates said “I mean that they remain in the upper world: but this must not be allowed, they must be made to descend again among the prisoners in the den, and partake of their labors and honors, whether they are worth having or not”. (The Allegory of the Cave Plato) This is where Plato begins to start on the topic of leadership. Although Plato uses some cause and effect elements in his allegory, such as “Where as if they go to the administration of public affairs, poor and hungering after their own private advantage, thinking that henc...
through a small window. She found her way to a river which led her back to the ghetto.
(p... ... middle of paper ... ... scene when she listens to Jazz - she opened herself for new things and she finds the light in it: "she now often mentioned glimpses" (p. 125). Music became like spiritual experience, something which can easily be related to Religion or even Love - things she never felt comfortable with.
Imagine human beings living in an underground, cavelike dwelling, with an entrance a long way up, which is both open to the light and as wide as the cave itself They've been there since childhood, fixed in the same place, with their necks and legs fettered, able to see only in front of them, because their bonds prevent them from taming their heads around. Light is provided by a fire burning far above and behind them. Also behind them, but on higher ground, there is a path stretching between them and the fire. Imagine that along this path a low wall has b...
Quickly Arthur took out a key (he stole) to open a door that led to a room and under a small carpet there was a door that led to the tunnel. Inside the room there was two backpacks, for them, filled with a flashlight, clothes, and money (Arthur’s brother was able to get inside and put the backpacks in). Arthur and Heather walked into the tunnel
When he was young, Mark would run up and down these stone tunnels. There were countless turns and dead ends to keep him happy for hours. Now, he trailed his hand on the sweating walls and breathed in the scent of wet rock with sad nostalgia. So much had happened since then and some days he wished he was still that six year old kid, without a care in the world.
“You’ve just crossed over into The Twilight Zone” says Rod Serling before every episode of The Twilight Zone. A show that leaves it’s viewers in a macabre state. Instead of drawing a conclusion like most shows, the show usually ends mysteriously. It utilizes similar elements as other short half-hour shows, but goes about it in a different way. This outlandish style is seen in literature, more specifically short stories, as well. Even though other short stories employ the same literary devices, “The Beast In The Cave” by H.P. Lovecraft is uniquely mysterious because of the story’s suspenseful plot, compelling diction, and, most important, overshadowing theme.
Darkness is one of the main themes in this scene. She said, and brought in cloudy night. immediately. I will be able to do so. Spread thy curtains, love performing night', this.
We were now at the bus stop. The sun had replenished and the sky full of glee. There was trail next to the bus stop, she started walking through it. The trees intertwined like arches and the shadows created an ominous feeling. As she walked through the forest, her whole body had a calm aura.
-Episode 6: M starts to climb down, and she is having a bit of a hard time getting down the rock.
prick up as she hears a sound in the water beyond the entrance to her lair. She
In Plato’s Republic, Socrates argues that for the perfectly just city to be realized in practice, philosopher must become kings and kings must become philosophers. In order to prove his point I will discuss the metaphor of the divided line and the allegory of the cave to explain Socrates’ theory of knowledge. Finally the questions of whether what a person knows make him or her better person? Does it qualify him or her to rule? Will get answered.
I particularly found Bacon’s idol, the Idol of the Cave, to be the most interesting and accurate. According to Bacon, the idol of the cave is a place for men where they may “be in their own worlds”. The cave may be a “den” where men can escape the actual world, prejudice, not have to worry about other worldly things, emerge into their own world free of worries and be with their own thoughts. It’s a place for men to enjoy their own individual thoughts, engage into intellectual activates such as reading to keep occupied without any interference from other being. I believe that this idol of Bacon is completely accurate as it allow men (all beings should be allowed, not just limited to men) to have some time alone and put their thoughts into perceptive.
The basic premise of Plato's allegory of the cave is to depict the nature of the human being, where true reality is hidden, false images and information are perceived as reality. In the allegory Plato tells a story about a man put on a Gnostics path. Prisoners seating in a cave with their legs and necks chained down since childhood, in such way that they cannot move or see each other, only look into the shadows on the wall in front of them; not realizing they have three-dimensional bodies. These images are of men and animals, carried by an unseen men on the background. Now imagine one of the prisoners is liberated into the light, the Gnostic path will become painful and difficult, but slowly his eyes will begin to accommodate what he sees and his fundamentalist view about the world will begin to change; he sees everything through an anarchic thinking and reasons. When he returns into the cave, his fellow prisoners will not recognize him or understand anything he says because he has develop a new senses and capability of perception. This is the representation of the human nature, we live in a cave with false perception of reality that we've been told since childhood, but we must realize that these present perception are incomplete.
After just two hours, our very large friend said he’d had enough for the day and was heading for the surface. We told him we’d be out in a few more minutes and to hang around so we could discuss what we’d found. As we began our ascent toward the entrance, we became acutely aware of the complete absence of light the entrance usually emanated. When our flashlights finally found the source of the unusual darkness we were horrified; the big guy was stuck in the cave’s opening again. This time Scott’s head and shoulders were outside, so instead of being able to pull him through, we would have to try to push him out of the opening. We pushed in every combination of ways possible, and needless to say it did not work this time. The paramount problem was that the cave floods from the interior out, so we would all drown if we couldn’t get Scott unstuck, and unstuck quickly.