1. How do you define truth?

2. Allegory of the Cave -Plato What is an allegory? a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation

3. Allegory of the Cave Allegory -Extreme metaphor extended in a narrative extending a metaphor through an entire narrative so that objects, persons, and actions in the text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text. Think: your sonnet but with a symbolic story attached w/ much deeper meaning

4. examples The Wizard of Oz cowardice is embodied in the lion, thoughtless panic in the scarecrow, and so on. (Some have claimed that L. Frank Baum's Oz books are also political allegories: that the scarecrow represents an agricultural past, for example, and the tin woodsman the industrial future.)"

5. Example The Lord of the Flies= without civilization, savagery takes over

6. Allegory of the Cave Philosophy Focus – Truth As we read & annotate we will make a list of all issues present (tips: look for repetition, objects, people, actions, etc) Thus we will question this, discuss and you will come up w/your ideas on truth…

7. Allegory of the Cave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69F7GhASOdM

8. Homework: Read & annotate the rest Come up w/a strong discussion question and your response to it Sample on reverse Yes we are discussing this next class

9. Closing question Enlightened = factually well-informed, tolerant of alternative opinions, and guided by rational thought Disc. Quest.= How far do you feel our “nature” is enlightened or unenlightened? See sentence #1 of the story Rephrase (if needed) Response=