The Allegory And Buffy

The Allegory of the Cave Vs. Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Similarities-
Buffy has leavels of knowledge. There is the lowest levels, the vampires. These things are driven by instinct, and though they think that they know everything and are now "better" when they are truly lower than humans. this is comparable to the slaves at the bottom of the cave. they only see shadows. they too think they know what is going on but really they are very sheltered.

The next level of knowledge is the average man. An every day human who knows the read world. they see the sun and have a job. they have families and loves ones. but they are missing a part of the world, the dark side...the side where creatures come out to get you. this is comparable to the people who make the shadows in the allegory. they see the true objects, but they do not know what it is like out side of the cave, they are missing the light side of the world. the sun and flowers.

the last level of knowledge is the highest, this is for the people who see it all. in Buffy the vampire slayer this would be Buffy. she not only knows about the monsters but she tried to get rid of them to save the people. in the allegory it is the one man who was able to escape for the cave. the man who was able to see the trees and grass. the one who was able to be free.


Differences-
there are two major differences that i see. In Buffy people are not seeing the dark side...which could be better than knowing. That is a personal opinion. where as in the allegory of the cave the slave escapes into light, the good side of the world.

Also Buffy is working on hiding everything all the the vampires and monsters. the one person who escaped from the cave was trying to spread the word of how much better it was outside




In the end they both say that there is so much in the world that we do not know about. and it may be hidden so we must look for it or it may be in our faces and we are looking away. either way we should try to find the truth.

Graham and Amandas Joy

"What is Joy? What is it that make us feel Joy? I think that Joy is the ability to be happy and have fun. To be able to find happiness in everything and exploit it for everyone and everything. Your personal happiness in an excited state."-Graham

"What is joy? Is it someting as simple as a someones smile that mkaes your day brighter? Or it have to be something bigger such as a dozen roses nad a trip to Disney Land. To me joy can be either. Joy is anything that makes you feel warm inside. It is something that makes a person wantr tobe with and help others."-Amanda

Here are two peoples views of whatjoy is. I agree with both of them, i think that it takes them both to be jpyful. i think that people should be happy with the little things in life but they will also have to apply it to everyone and everything.

Joy

What is joy? Is it someting as simple as a someones smile that mkaes your day brighter? Or it have to be something bigger such as a dozen roses nad a trip to Disney Land. To me joy can be either. Joy is anything that makes you feel warm inside. It is something that makes a person wantr tobe with and help others.

The Allegory of the Cave

This image is shows the story. As you can see there are people who can not move and see only shadows, also known as presniors. Then there are the guards. they are the ones holding up the objects in the back. they are allowed to see the objects and the fire. yet both groups have not seen the real world. The lucky few who have seen the real world know that everything in the cave is an illusion of reality. In the story one of the presinors is able to escape. he see the guards and the objects. he is blinded by the fire. until he finds his way to the outside of the cave and is set free. At first he is scared and can not see anything. but eventually his eyes adjust to the light and he is able to see the grass, trees, and colors in the world. He now knows his life was only half lived. trying to help the others he goes back down to tell them about it and they think he is crazy, they say he has spoiled his eyes and do not want to go up with him.

When looking at this essay one can look at the levels of the people. The upper class, are the people who are allowed to see the world. the middle class, the gourds. they have a decent life. they know real objects but they still are missing the joy of outside. wind in their face or sunlight warming their skin. and last, the lower class or prisionors. they do not get anything that is real. they have been tricked the whole time.

Sadly the prisoners were given the choice to be free, to become the upper class. but they said no. they were so scared or set in their ways that they would not try something new. believing and seeing is something the world needs to be open to. The Cave is a wonderful example of how people should be more open to peoples ideas. How we should look at what we are doing because we may be the ones in the dark.

Gender Roles

"What? Dinner not ready yet?! What have you ben doing?"

The two diffrent images have two very diffretn meanign. The black and white one, is supposed to be the classic role of a woman. She is supposed to take care of the kids, clean the house and cook dinner. Be the hometaker. When the father or man of the house gets home he expects the woman to have it all done; dinner ready, house clean and kids behaving. When in reality she works juat as hard as he does with rasing the kids and keeping the house. why should she be expected to do everything?

This is why i like the color picture of the woman. she is doing the mans job. provong that she can. does that prove that men can take care of the kids and cook dinner? It is my opnion that women are just as good as men. we are all equal. granted yes, each gender may excell in one area or another, but we are all human, and all eequal.

Pople are suck in a rut, we seem to think that if you are male you can not be a nurse or a stay at hime mom.People can be what ever they want ot be. Women can be a fire fighter, or a police man if they want. in fact, i think that anyone who satnd up in what they beleive in should be prased. i am pround of our male nurses and femail cops. I like our femail mechanics.

i am proud to say that my father was a saty at home father as much as he could. and one day i hope to be as independant and inseprational as he is.