False Truth In Shakespeare's Othello

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As children we are taught there is only one truth, and the truth is always the answer. Literary evidence from Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the play Othello, and the article “Don’t Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgement” seems to prove it's not. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Plato explained how people themselves has their own definition of truth. As the men are stuck in a cave, they only see the shadows on the wall as the truth.They developed themselves a false truth, but still a truth. Now look at Othello by William Shakespeare as Othello was tricked by Iago into believing lies Othello has created himself the false truth. He wasn’t able to unravel the truth about mankind, and the truth is stuck in the layers of lies in the stories of Othello, In Plato’s Cave the first thing that happened was having false truth. There were four prisoners trying to escape, showing their mindset filled with false truth,. This continues one day when one of the four broke free, and went outside to experience the light. When the freed man first went out he has said, “ Iit hurts” meaning the truth that he has created himself is disappearing and being recreated. For people being enlightened and know the truth can be shocking to them because they never would have expected it, …show more content…

The three prisoners saw the shadows on the wall. Plato writes, “And they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another which the fire throws on at the opposite wall of the cave” Since all they saw were the shadows, they weren't able to comprehend what was happening and were to stuck in their already given truths were actually distorted. As a result, they believed what the shadows cast were the truth. They were never given possibilities to have other thought than of what they were seeing every day. They didn't have a choice in trying to have their own way of truth or

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