MLA format 8 paragraphs, I need current political examples relating to the Plato’s Allegory of the cave and George Orwell’s essay called Politics and the English Language. 4 examples relating to Plato’s story and 4 examples relating to Orwell’s essay An example would be in the recent election where Hillary Clinton was rumored to running a child sex ring in Washington (This is just an example do not use this). I have wrote a description and analysis of both essays that you can check out and you can also get both readings online.Abdulyan 1 Eric Abdulyan Samuel Joseph English 104 19 March 2019 False Reality and Meaningless Words The power of dishonesty and misconceptions has taken away people’s determination to speak of nothing but the truth. In Plato’s book called Allegory of the Cave, he explains how people only use their senses to believe if something is real or not. The concept of accepting information from another person is fading away due to people trusting only what their senses can grasp on. Similarly, in George Orwell’s essay called Politics and the English Language; Orwell questions the virtues of the english language. He goes on about how people manipulate something with the use of their words. This paper will examine current political events in relation to Plato and Orwell’s writings. Certain events that take place in Allegory of the Cave show how people only believe in something through their own senses. Plato starts off his story by introducing a group of people who have been living in a cave since they were brought into the world. These people were held as prisoners and were not allowed to leave. They were locked up in chains and forced to look forward. The only thing they have ever known and thought about is the cave and its shadows. The shadows they see are people walking outside the cave while carrying things on their shoulders. The prisoners always play a game where they start guessing what the next shadow is going to be. Plato then tells us how one of the prisoners escapes the cave. The prisoner then goes on an adventure seeking new things and finding new information. He was then astonished of how Abdulyan 2 the “outside world” actually is. Learning all this new information, the prisoner goes back to the cave to tell the other prisoners what the world is actually like. He explains to the others who are still held captive that their interpretation of the world has been wrong and that there is more to this world that they have not yet discovered. The other prisoners don’t believe a word that he says and then proceed to threaten to kill him for being insane. The enlightened prisoner then asks the other prisoners to join him, but strongly decline the offer. To further analyze, the Allegory of the Cave is a dialogue between Plato and Glaucon. They go back and forth debating about whether people should only trust their senses to believe certain things and not from the opinions of others. He tells Glaucon to picture the story about the cave to prove his point. His main point is that people are terrified of learning the truth. They only trust their senses to determine if something is real or not. Plato implies that the one prisoner who decided to escape represents a philosopher seeking to find answers. Being skeptical about his existence, the escapee realized there is more to his life than just the cave. Henceforth, Plato is encouraging others to skepticize everything they believe in, even if it is right in front of their eyes. He is trying to make people do what philosophers do and explore the world for what it is. However, some are scared to gain any knowledge from philosophers. For example,” Therefore, Plato is suggesting that ‘your philosophical journey sometimes may lead your thinking in directions that society does not support’” (Lodhi). In this case, the society would represent the other prisoners, who refused to believe a word the “philosopher” was saying. Plato doesn’t just stop there; he wants people to realize the bigger picture in all of this. For instance, Anam Lodhi states,” The Allegory of the Cave shows us the relation between education and truth”. Plato believes that education is the key to seeking the truth. People have a better chance seeking the Abdulyan 3 truth by gaining more and more knowledge. However, education comes with the desire and resistance to learn (Lodhi). Plato believes if we can set our minds in the right path, through the hardships and struggles, then we will be closer to learning the real truth. The escapee’s desire to explore outside the cave lead him closer to the truth about the world he lives in. In George Orwell’s essay called Politics and the English Language, he demonstrates how politicians or modern english writers have deceived people through their written work. He starts off his essay by giving a clear explanation about how the english language has been crumbling. Economic causes and politics are what Orwell believes created the downfall of the english language. Orwell then provides five short passages from different people that relate back to his main point. After these passages, he breaks down his main point into four reasons. These reasons are dying metaphors, operators or verbal false limbs, pretentious diction, and meaningless words. He explains how these four things are implemented in the english language. Orwell then gives readers six reasons on how to refrain from using those four ideologies. To conclude his essay, Orwell talks about general politics and how people are always surrounded by it. George Orwell wanted readers to realize his overall argument about his essay. His argument was about how flawed the english language has become. Politicians have figured out a way to manipulate the public with the use of words. Orwell provides short sections from five different essays and explains how flawed they are. He talks about how vague the essays are and how they don’t really get to the point. Then Orwell writes about the 4 reasons that he thinks are changing the english language. The first one he starts off with is dying metaphors. Orwell says that writers use metaphors out of context, which confuses the readers. Another reason he talked about is meaningless words. This is closely related to dying metaphors because Orwell states that Abdulyan 4 meaningless words are used to deceive and confuse readers and can be improperly mentioned in any sort of context.