PLATO MYTH OF THE CAVE...

The Allegory of the Cave – also known as the Analogy of the Cave, Plato's Cave, or the Parable of the Cave – is an allegory used by the Greek philosopherPlato in his work The Republic to illustrate "our nature in its education and want of education" (514a). It is written as a fictional dialogue between Plato's teacherSocrates and Plato's brother Glaucon at the beginning of Book VII (chapter IX in Robin Waterfield's translation) (514a–520a). The Allegory of the Cave is presented after the metaphor of the sun (507b–509c) and the analogy of the divided line (509d–513e). Allegories are summarized in the viewpoint of dialectic at the end of Book VII and VIII (531d-534e).

In the dialogue, Socrates describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Socrates, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.

The task was given to my group, we have to related the real world with the the Plato's analogy. we have chosen Malaysian political system. In our opinion,

The prisoners is symbolise The Malaysian's citizen

The Chains is symbolize The Laws that our country have

The Fire is symbolize The Politicians in Malaysia country

The Shadows and The Image is symbolize their manifesto before election day, they say promise to people.

The Puppet Players is symbolize The wealthy people and the person who are standing behind them are politicians.

The Old Man is symbolize knowledge

the reason why the prisoners hurt his eyes when he was first liberate it is because the prisoners cannot accept the truth thing what happens in their life.

the prisoners still insist that the images which he has seen before is real that the statues because, they cannot accept the truth thing and of course the truth thing is very hurtful...

GENERAL COMMENT FOR 4 ARTICLES...

assalamualaikum...

I got 4 articles from Sir kamaraziz to make a review using the rules of 10.. There are Thinking Folly, Degree of Happiness, Man and Woman are Merely Players and Jews and Their Deceits..

Thinking folly..

this article offers the readers to think differently. it recommends us to merely thinking about now rather than think about the past and the future.. 

Degree of Happiness'

this article argues that the happiness only can be achieve when we are success and have a good career. 

Man and Woman are Merely Players..

this article discuss about people can do anything to get what they want even though it is an dishonest way. It is very interesting article about the true nature of human.

Jews and Their Deceits

the jews and their deceits is written by Adolf hitler. it is excrept by his famous book "Mein Kamprf".. this article shows the hatred of Hitler towards the jews and he told the reader that the Jews is cunning in order to conquer the world.

 

Simile and Metaphor................

SIMILE...

A simile is a figure of speech that indirectly compares two different things by employing the words "like", "as", or "than".

METAPHOR............

MY EXAMPLES OF SIMILE AND METAPHOR...

• AS SLOW AS SNAIL

• WATER IS CRYSTAL CLEAR

The mystery of "Jack the Ripper".............

A serial killer murdered and mutilated at least five prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888 and because no one was ever arrested or tried for the murders, crime buffs are still fascinated with the Jack the Ripper case more than 115 years later.

"Jack The Ripper" is the name given to unknown killer due to correspondence at the time from someone claiming to be the killer signed with that name. But while the murders were taking place, the assailant was know as the Whitechapel Murder or "Leather Apron."

There is some dispute concerning how many victims Jack The Ripper claimed. Some believe that he killed only four prostitutes during his spree, while others think that he may have killed as many as nine. It is generally accepted that there were five victims.

Victims of Jack The Ripper

These are the Ripper's victims that most experts agree on:

• Mary Ann (Polly) Nichols, murdered on Bucks' Row, Friday, August 31, 1888.
• Annie Chapman, murdered at 29 Hanbury Street, Saturday, September 8, 1888.
• Elizabeth Stride, murdered on Berner Street, Sunday, September 30, 1888.
• Catharine Eddowes, murdered in Mitre Square, Sunday, September 30, 1888.
• Mary Jane (Marie Jeanette) Kelly, murdered at Number 13 Miller's Court, Friday, November 9, 1888.

Although there were 13 other women murdered in the East End area from December 1887 until April 1891, most observers agree that they were not the victims of the Ripper.

THE MOST LIKELY "JACK THE RIPPER".....

PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR..

Premise 1: Prince Albert  suffers syphilis

•Argument : He wants to take revenges towards prostitutes that make him suffers syphilis by disemboweling them and removing their uteruses.

•Sub argument : Albert was notorious for being a ladies man and hiring prostitutes across Whitechapel.

• Premise 3: Prince Albert was subject to blackmail by two prostitutes about him having gonorrhea.

 Argument : He wants to take revenge towards prostitute at the Whitechapel.

•Sub Argument :  This issue humiliated royal institution and the people lose faith toward the institution.

•Premise 2 : Stephan Knight claimed that Prince Albert maybe has a relationship with a prostitute and has a daughter.

•Argument : He wants to keep it as secret so he kills the canonical five who might know about his affairs.

•Sub argument : He will be remove from the line of succession if all the royal members and citizen knows about it and it will humiliated royal family.