The Sunset Limited Analysis

The play, the Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy, is talking about a two people Black and White. White is a professor who thinks that his life is full of darkness he decides to jump off the railroad to end his life. While Black used to be in jail and he used to live in the darkness. But later he read the Bible and he start to believe in God. Black save White's life and bring him to Black’s house and try to tell use Bible and his experience White that life is full of meaning and hope. But because of White thinks that he has read more book and more has more knowledge than Black and he is trying to deny Black that the life is full of darkness. Black fail to convince White not to suicide. Because of that , Black feels his life fall back into the

In the Sunset Limited, Black’s life was full of darkness because when White asks Black about how Black gets into jail. Black says that “ Murder.” and when White asks him about “ you were always in a lot of trouble?” Black answers that “Yeah. I was I like it. and I liked it. Maybe I still do. I done seven years hard time and I was lucky not to of done a lot more. I hurt a lot of people. I’d smack em around a little and then they would get up again”(McCarthy,18). It show that Black was aggressive and his life used to fulfill with darkness before he change and believe God. He was loss once and he now he become resilience. This which is similar to the freed prisoner in “the Allegory of Cave”. At the beginning of the story, Socrates describes the cave and says that: “People live under the earth in a cavelike dwelling. stretching a long way up toward the daylight is its entrance, toward which the entire cave is gathered. The people have been in this dwelling since childhood, shackled by the legs and neck”(Plato). The freed prisoner used to live in this situation: People who live in the cave have been totally fulfilled with darkness. Plato creates this setting is trying to show that the prisoner used to live in the cave have been totally fulfilled with darkness. In order to

Socrates says that “the freed person had to engage in the business of asserting and maintaining opinions about the shadows-- while his eyes are still weak and before they have readjusted, an adjustment that would require quite a bit of time -- would he not then be exposed to ridicule down there?” (Plato). The free prisoner is trying to convince other prisoner that what they saw before just a reflection and the shadow of the true knowledge. But they do not believe in his words and thinks that he is insane.at the end of the Allegory of the Cave Glaucon agree that Socrates if these prisoner can hold of this person, “they certainly will” kill the freed prison (Plato).This is similar to the Black because after Black believe in God, he thinks his life no longer become shaded. He tells White that “How come you cant see yourself, honey? You plain as glass. I can see the wheels turnin in there. The gears. And I can see the light too. Good light”(McCarthy,17). However White does not believe in his words. White stills thinks that his life is full of darkness and there is no such light in his life. So he ends up walk out from Black’s house and suicide. Black becomes lost and feels that he falls back to the darkness by asks the God after White leaves. He