Write a response paper that a) briefly analyzes the central meaning(s) of Plato: Allegory of the Cave, and b) thoughtfully explores how characters, events, or themes in Plato: Allegory of the Cave may relate to your personal life and current events or global issues in the world today.
Requirements:
Write an introduction that announces the name of the story and author you’ve chosen and provides a specific thesis statement that describes the aspect of the story you’ll be discussing, and how it is relevant to the present.
In your body paragraphs, elaborate on your thesis, connecting one or more specific aspects of the story with personal experience, a current event, and/or a global issue. (A useful brainstorming exercise here may be to think in terms of dichotomies, like war and peace, love and hate, wisdom and ignorance, etc.- where do you see these conflicts in a text, and how might they connect to a current event?) Remember, the focus of this paper is to draw meaningful connections between characters, plot, or theme to some type of current or recent event in our time.
