Plathos myth

The Myth of the undermine and a locomote for Emily The stories Myth of the Cave by Plates and A rosaceous for Emily by William Faulkner reveal how people are compelled to live their life In an Illusion or a different behavior rather than to live in mankind, thinking thats how life is supposed to be, non knowing what life really looks like, they make this illusion seem real, at to the lowest degree to them. Even though the plots of the stories are different, they some(prenominal) share similar themes that can elate to each other, such as isolation.In the story A uprise for Emily the characters throw off similar settings in Plat&s Myth. To begin with Plats Myth and a Rose for Emily both stories share the theme of isolation. In Plats Myth prisoners are connected with chains to their necks not allowing them to look sideward, only towards what Is directly in front of them. Behind them there Is a burning fire with people holding up puppets that cast shadows on the wall, making t he prisoners believe that the shadows that they are seeing are real people rather than Just shadows.What It really convinces the prisoners are the echoes and the sounds that fit the shadows. That Is what actually makes them believe that the shadows are real people rather than just an illusion. The prisoners live isolated in the subvert from the real world, being accustomed to the ugliness already. If they would peep out the bright rays of the sun would without doubt harm the prisoners eyes, they would ever let loose. In A Rose for Emily her house plays a big role because when she was younger her father withheld her from suitors which are hat made her get used to staying inside of her house.Even when her father died, she still stayed inside her house. She feels safe within those walls and believes her world inside that space Is reality. Emily like the prisoners, also lives isolated from reality. Both stories share the theme of Isolation or the state of being separated from other people, or a lieu In which you do not have the support of other people. Characters In both stories are Isolated from the outside, from reality. Also in A Rose for Email she has a servant name Toby that goes in and out of the house.Toby is the only one that knows what is going on inside the house but yet does not talk to anybody about it. When Emily dies, after the funeral, and after Emily is buried, the townspeople go upstairs to break into the room, they knew was closed for years. Inside, they found the body of Homer Barron a guy that the townspeople thought it was her partner, dead in the bed. After Emily died the townspeople find out the mystery inside the house. Just like in Plats Myth, Socrates released one of the prisoners we can analyse the necessitous prisoner with Toby in A Rose for Emily.When the prisoner goes out of the cave the light burned his eyes because he was used to the darkness In the cave. The prisoner, after he realized what was outside, finds out that every thing he saw inside In the cave was an Illusion. He finally realized what reality Is. canvas both stones they finally discover what was hidden. The prisoner discovered the real world outside of the cave, and the townspeople in A Furthermore the prisoner that was set free in Plats Myth decides to go back to the cave to tell the other prisoners that what they see in the cave is not real is Just an illusion.That what was outside the cave is reality, but the prisoners dont believe him and laugh at him. The prisoners werent interested of what it was outside of the cave. They also talk about killing the freed prisoner if he tries to set them free. In A Rose for Emily, even after her fathers dead, she still separates herself from the townspeople. She refuses to have a social life out of her house. With the only person that the townspeople saw her with was with Homer, which they believe it was her boyfriend.In both stories we see house both characters are scared to get out of their nurtur e zone because they are already dependent of one place. They feel take prisoner being inside the same place. In the Myth of the Cave by Plato and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner both stories shows similarities in their characters how they isolate themselves in their comfort zone because both of them relay in a place where they dont go away from. For example in Plats Myth is the cave and in A Rose for Emily is the house where she spends her life.It also shows in Plats how one of the prisoners is set free and he discovers that what he sees in the cave was Just an illusion. Like in A Rose for Emily, when she dies the townspeople finally discovers what was hidden in her house. In both stories the characters discover reality but some others refuse to know what reality is. Emily died without knowing the reality outside her house, and the prisoners refused to believe that there is something else outside the cave.