Presentation V.S. Representation
As I was doing my research about presentation and representation, I read that presentation is the authors purposes while representation is the audience perspective of the author's meaning. This made me think about Plato's Allegory of the Cave from the Republic. The story began with Socrates telling a story to a friend about 3 men that were raised in the shadows, and everything they knew was about living in the shadows. One day, they went out to the real world and they did not like it. They decided to return to the cave and would not want to go out to the world. This is a classic because it remarks the different perspective, and how often people react to things that they do not understand.
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