Practice Essay

  Plato and Satre's characters both have different ways of looking at things and dealing with situations. They both would take a different approach of a situation or an event. If I were put in the shoes of a character in "No Exit", and a prisoner (even though a prisoner in the cave might not be wearing shoes, but you get the point) from "The Allegory Of The Cave", this is how I would approach a situation of some sort. This situation will be the first one listed, a certain sound outside of our peripheral vision.

  If I were put in the shoes of a character in "No Exit", the sound outside would go off, then I'd think of what that sound was exactly. Once I got my general idea of what I thought it was or sounded like, I'd immediately get in contact with other friends or colleges of mine and then talk with them through a group message, or try and meet in person and discuss what exactly the sound was. Then we'd throw in our opinions and thoughts with each other until we'd come to an agreement on  what exactly it was, or even get enough info to where we don't have an exact opinion on what it was, but to figure out what the sound was and what caused the noise to occur.

  Now, in the shoes of a prisoner in "The Allegory Of The Cave", the approach would be taken much differently. First, the noise would go off. Then, time would be taken to try and figure out what the noise is or what exactly made it. However, with only one idea on what we thought the sound was, we'd only be able to assume our own opinion, whether right or wrong, and never find out what exactly made that sound, unless if we were able to escape from the cave into the light, where we could explore outside of the cave and try and get a better idea of what the sound was.

  So these are two different takes on a situation by two completely different characters. Both authors, Plato and Sartre show good examples of characters that would go differently if a certain situation occurred. Not to mention that other situations would probably go the same way.