"The Allegory of the Cave" and The Truman Show

"The Allegory of the Cave" and The Truman Show

Here are some sources that will help. Remember to treat Truman and the man who leaves the cave as similar characters. They experience the same “awakening.” So you use a source on Plato to talk about Truman.

http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cave.htm

https://philpapers.org/s/Allegory_of_the_cave

https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/text-to-text-platos-allegory-of-the-cave-and-in-the-cave-philosophy-and-addiction/comment-page-1/

https://philosophynow.org/issues/32/The_Truman_Show

http://www.joanmaragall.com/fronesis/3/lletres_i_pensament/science/cculture.html

Relation to The Truman Show:

The Truman Show is repeating a story that dozens of other works of popular fiction have used for decades. It is a story that reveals an essential truth about what is happening to society in the 20th Century.

What is that truth? In part, it is about how the media and corporations have begun to surround us with a universe of illusions. From their high-tech control centers, they increasingly script and stage-manage events, creating the danger that we will find ourselves living inside seamless works of theater that we mistake for the world.

Like dozens of characters before him in other works of fiction, the hero in The Truman Show goes on a journey to escape this realm of smoke and mirrors. And then he discovers something unexpected -- what he believed was an open horizon and a way out, is really a wall (http://www.transparencynow.com/truman.htm).

Citing Outside Sources (MLA)

Citing Outside Sources (MLA)—This is how online sources should appear on your Works Cited Page

Goodman, J. David. “Appearances Mean Nothing. Or Everything.” 8, June. 2010,

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/appearances-mean-nothing-or-

everything/?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw&_r=0

IF there is no known author:

“Appearances Mean Nothing. Or Everything.” 8, June. 2010,

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/appearances-mean-nothing-or-

everything/?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw&_r=0

In Text Citations:

Citing non-print or sources from the Internet

While many sources on the Internet should not be used for scholarly work, some Web sources are perfectly acceptable for research. When creating in-text citations for electronic, film, or Internet sources, remember that your citation must reference the source in your Works Cited.

The temp’s appearance ended up being misleading. “But, as it is said, the cut of a man’s suit, or the color of a pig’s lipstick, is not the measure of his or her character, or something like that” (Goodman).

In-text citations for print sources with no known author (Just use the title of the article)

We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has "more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . ." ("Impact of Global Warming" 6).

Citing the Bible

You want to make clear which Bible you're using (italicize the title), as each version varies in its translation, followed by book (do not italicize or underline), chapter and verse. For example:

Ezekiel saw "what seemed to be four living creatures," each with faces of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle (New Jerusalem Bible, Ezek. 1.5-10).

This website can help with any further questions:

owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/2/

WED MARCH 21---ECC IS CLOSED

WED MARCH 21---ECC IS CLOSED

We will finish the film next Monday.

Here is a link to The Allegory of the Cave that I gave out in class on Monday:

http://www.michaelbaur.com/teaching/PlatoCave.pdf

Life of Pi

Here is the IMDB.COM page for the film:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/

Interviews with the author of the novel:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/nov/26/fiction

http://textualities.net/jennie-renton/yann-martel-interview/

Other articles about the novel/film:

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/French-director-swept-away-by-Life-of-Pi-2565015.php

http://www.theministryrookie.com/2013/02/25/does-the-life-of-pi-prove-the-existence-of-god/

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/25/fiction.reviews1

MON/WED UPDATED SYLLABUS

March
19 Film: Life of Pi

21 Film: Life of Pi

26 “The Allegory of the Cave”

28 The Truman Show

April
2 The Truman Show

4 ASSIGN FINAL PAPER

9  BRING IN DRAFTS FOR REVIEW 1137 10-1

11 BRING IN DRAFTS FOR REVIEW 1137 10-1

16 FINAL PAPER DUE

TUES/THURS UPDATED SYLLABUS

March
20 Film: Life of Pi

22 Film: Life of Pi

27 “The Allegory of the Cave”

29 The Truman Show

April
3 The Truman Show

5 ASSIGN FINAL PAPER

10 BRING IN DRAFTS FOR REVIEW 1137 10-1

12 BRING IN DRAFTS FOR REVIEW 1137 10-1

17 FINAL PAPER DUE

"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"

This is an article about the misuse of church funds:

https://news.sky.com/story/bishop-used-church-money-for-cattle-ranch-11299536

This is an article about villagers mistaking a sex doll for an angel:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/sex-toy-washes-indonesian-beach-locals-angel-article-1.2624725

Magical Realism:

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Magic_realism.html


http://www.english.iup.edu/pagnucci/courses/121/definitions/litdefinition-magicalrealism.htm


This article discusses "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" and magical realism:

http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/marquez.htm

Here is a list of fairytales that you may want to reference:

http://ivyjoy.com/fables/

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/


What makes a story a fairy tale?

http://www.voxmagazine.com/blog/2012/10/what-makes-a-fairy-tale/

Freudian Analysis of the story:

https://bradham.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/freudian-principles-explaining-a-very-old-man-with-enormous-wings/

"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"

http://www.academia.edu/1000317/Marquezs_A_Very_Old_Man_with_Enormous_Wings_and_Bambaras_The_Lesson

http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=12287

https://seanfoleyportfolio.weebly.com/a-very-old-man-with-enormous-wings.html

Author's Obit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/books/gabriel-garcia-marquez-literary-pioneer-dies-at-87.html?_r=0

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find"

More on "A Good Man is Hard to Find":

http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/a-moment-of-grace-in-flannery-oconnors-a-good-man-is-hard-to-find/

https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/flannery-oconnors-good-man-hard-find-whos-real-misfit

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/25/readers-den-flannery-oconnor-good-man-hard-find

http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=9&sid=7a0d2f82-11ba-4046-80b7-8b3557846338%40sessionmgr4002&hid=4214

Links on Southern Culture:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/regionalism.html

http://edsitement.neh.gov/launchpad-flannery-oconnors-journey-through-the-south

Folow this link for a collection of links about the story:

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/O’Connor.htm

http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=7a0d2f82-11ba-4046-80b7-8b3557846338%40sessionmgr4002&vid=11&hid=4214

http://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=casfac

http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/607/784

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/old-WILLA/fall95/Haines.html

O'Connor reading the story and commentary:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/rare_1959_audio_flannery_oconnor_reads_a_good_man_is_hard_to_find.html

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/jul/05/fresh-look-flannery-o-connor-cartoons

Four collections of essays provide a good range of criticism on O’Connor (These would be found in the Literary Criticism section of a book store or library):

1. The Added Dimension: The Art and Mind of Flannery O’Connor, edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Lewis A. Lawson (1966; rpt. Fordham University Press, 1977).

2. Critical Essays on Flannery O’Connor, edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Beverly Lyon Clark (Hall, 1985).

3. Flannery O’Connor, edited by Harold Bloom (Chelsea House, 1986).

4. Realist of Distances: Flannery O’Connor Revisited, edited by Karl-Heinz Westarp and Jan Nordby Gretlund (Aarhus, 1987).

The Misfit with the grandmother:

Taking the family to the woods:

The author: