The Other in "The Allegory of the Cave" by Lauren Curcio https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t In your opinion, by the end of the story, who takes on the role of "the other": the man who left or the men who remain? Back up your response with at least ONE reason why. en-us 2016-09-11 22:17:52 UTC 2025-10-05 04:56:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png The men who remained become "the other" because the enlightened individual is now able to recognize and create a division; this division is known only to the enlightened, which in turn makes him part of a new reality and the men who stayed in the cave become "the other" outside of that new reality.   ldelay_curcio https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/122986776 2016-09-11 22:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/122986776 In my opinion, the man who left the cave is now "the other" because he is separated from the majority. He is now isolated from the other prisoners because of his newly gained knowledge. He became "the other" as soon as he learned about the rest of the world. He will never be able to return to a full member of the prisoner group because of his insight about the real world. amandaperlman https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176518 2016-09-12 15:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176518 The Other are the men who remain in the cave, because the guy who left has seen the real world, like the rest of the  calereistad https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176524 people in the world]]> 2016-09-12 15:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176524 The man who left takes the role of "the other" because he has now seen the outside world and is an outsider within the community of the prisoners. The other prisoners can't hear what he has to say and choose to not accept that there may be something else outside of the cave. amyspeer https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176557 2016-09-12 15:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176557 To the men who remain, the man who left becomes the other. He has an entirely different view of the world and they cannot accept what he says to be the truth.  kellypetix https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176562 2016-09-12 15:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176562 The man who left becomes the other because he now has a different perception of reality than the majority of people in the story and therefore lives as "the other" view of reality contrary to the communal belief.  keelanvargas https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176651 2016-09-12 15:31:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176651 peytontritz https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176662 The other is the man that left the cave to the men that were left behind because he had a new world and they still were in the same world they have been in forever. The man who left had to learn about the world again. ]]> 2016-09-12 15:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176662 The Man  jasonoehme https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176675 2016-09-12 15:31:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176675 The man who left because he is excluded from his fellow prisoners and their  jasonoehme https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176690 2016-09-12 15:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176690 ashleyspiegel https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176693 The ]]> 2016-09-12 15:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176693     meaganskolnick https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176702 By the end of the story, the role of "the other" becomes the freed prisoner. This is because he returns to the cave, to tell the others of the world, they have a hard time believing him. He becomes the minority instead of the majority, because he has a different reality, and different perception than that of those in the cave. The freed prisoner is now the outsider, the distorted shadow with talk that the prisoners cannot hope to see in their lifetime.]]> 2016-09-12 15:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176702 The men who remain become the other in my opinion because they are still have no knowledge of the outside world. The man who left is now able to create a new life with the knowledge he knows and the other men stay living with out knowlein side someone else's world. lilyidzahl https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176707 2016-09-12 15:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176707 sventate https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176711 I think the men that remain are now the other because there perspective of the world is still clouded. ]]> 2016-09-12 15:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176711 ashleyspiegel https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176714 In "The Allegory of the Cave," the "other" is the man who left the prisoners in the cave and received the insight of the outside world. I think this because the majority of the time, the perspective is from the prisoners, so when the man leaves he becomes the "other." The "other" is ultimately the person or group that has a different understanding to the speaker's views.   ]]> 2016-09-12 15:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176714 estewilkinson https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176731 The man who left is the other, because the man who left wants to bring his friends into his world. The men who remain refuse to leave as they see his world as dangerous and not even a reality. It is not as though the man who left wants to seperate himself from the men who remain. Where as the men who remain now see the man who left as different, and in the wrong, therefore, the other.]]> 2016-09-12 15:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176731 davispetersen https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176799 The ]]> 2016-09-12 15:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176799 katiesaunders https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176837 The men who remain are the other because only one man went to see the world, and only he knows what the real world looks like. He has become the other because no one else can relate to what he has seen and who he has become after seeing the world.]]> 2016-09-12 15:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176837 The other knows the outside alexthompson2 https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176916 2016-09-12 15:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176916 The Man who Left juliagibbs https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176919 The "other" is the man who left because he is the only man who must relearn everything based on his new reality. Everyone else has known their reality for their whole life but he is on his own to navigate the new world. His is the different one.]]> 2016-09-12 15:31:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176919 Depends on whose perspective you're looking from davispetersen https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176920 2016-09-12 15:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123176920 In my opinion the man who left the cave is "the other" because he now looks at everything with a different perspective and the the man who left is only one person as opposed to the majority that are still left in the cave. The people left in the cave most likely share the same beliefs and now the man who left the cave has a different opinion.  taylorolson1 https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123177108 2016-09-12 15:32:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123177108 The man who left the cave is now the other from the men in the cave because they know nothing other, but the man outside the cave calls the men in the cave the others.  davidlapointe https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123177148 2016-09-12 15:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123177148 zoewalsh https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123177240 The man who left the cave is the other, in my opinion, because his world view is considered insane by his "people", the prisoners, and he is outed. He no longer has anyone who trusts or believes him. He hasn't lived in the outside world and, as far as we are told, none of the "normal" people know the prisoner exist. He knows more of reality than anyone else in the story, and due to that he isn't able to fit in with either reality he can choose, since neither is truly "real" to him, and he is, therefore, alone.]]> 2016-09-12 15:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123177240 In my opinion, each man is the other to the other one. The men in the cave believe the man who left is the other, because he has a completely different perspective than them; they each have different perspectives therefore they're the other to each other.  daisythunstrom https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123177315 2016-09-12 15:32:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123177315 I think the prisoner that was released from the cave becomes the "other".  "The Allegory of the Cave" explores the idea of the ignorance of the prisoners and their perception of reality.  Because of that, I think that the perspective of the story should be based from the prisoners' perception.  Once a prisoner leaves, then returns, the other prisoners can not recognize the man as one of their own.  He then takes on the role of the "other" because he is not discernable from the other people to the prisoners. annikafahrner https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123177375 2016-09-12 15:32:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123177375 The man who left cave is the "other" because his friends can no longer recognize him. They only see him as a shadow. maddieward https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123177384 2016-09-12 15:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123177384 grantmcnamara https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123178232 2016-09-12 15:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123178232 To the men that remain they are the others. grantmcnamara https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123178236 2016-09-12 15:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123178236 The man who left is the "other", because he was already out of his friend's knowledge. yutingwang https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123180208 2016-09-12 15:38:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ldelay_curcio/ikww7ojplr6t/wish/123180208