Plato's Myth vs. "A Time to Kill"

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This paper contends that Plato's myth of the cave parallels the movie, "A Time to Kill", symbolically, through the concept of the lives that some people lead and how they are constrained by society.

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"In the world today, there are several kinds of people that exist all of whom have different ways of thinking and life styles. The way that some individuals behave may not seem acceptable to others because of cultural norms and preconceived notions based on societal mores. People may even appear to be different in the way that they eat, dress, and look. However, this does not in any way mean that they should be discriminated against, as it would probably be unfair to judge a person based on his or her physical characteristics. Perhaps, from a legal perspective such discrimination might be defined as criminal. However, worse than this the racial bias is the physically harming of an individual based on his or her appearance. Consider here the movie "A Time to Kill" in which a ten-year-old African American girl is raped by white boys. Enraged by the death of his daughter, the girl's father, Samuel Jackson shoots both the rapists and in the process injures a cop finally finding himself on trial in a southern state upholding "white" racist values and yet, ironically being defended by a "white" lawyer, Jake Brigance (Berardinelli, 1996). When we hear the summation speech of Brigance we realize that his concepts were similar to those presented by Plato's myth."

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