Transform yourself and your vision to something totally different. Imagine a life filled with peace and not filled with war, anger, and hatred. You can't right? Life is all about maintaining a good balance between the good and bad. If we can't maintain that balance, then everything is just going to end badly. But, if we can maintain that balance, then we can make sure that life is as smooth as it can get. Maintaining that balance must come from having an open-mind. If one is open-minded, then they are eager and motivated to make a change to set that balance to make reality better. Although, if one is close-minded, then they won't be able to make a change to set that balance or even experience true reality.
If I were to imagine, I would imagine myself as a prisoner from Plato's "Allegory". I would pretty much not know how to react to a world without evil because I would have been used to the cave and its environment. But then again, I am still shackled in this deep cave. It will take some time to adjust, but as long as I am open-minded to new ideas and ways to experience the real world, then I will be set to help make change to set a balance in my life and the life of others. If I really think about it, the fire can resemble the fiery passion of escaping the shackles of life and pushing forward. The light from the fire can resemble the clarity of our vision for our path to escape the shackles of life. The shadows can resemble the one-sided perspective we all have unless we venture forward to find out whose owns those shadows. Plato certainly uses figurative language to prove his insight and his ideas.
In comparison with the prisoner to Garcin from "No Exit", Garcin also realizes what he has done wrong. He realizes and thinks about what is happening to the life that he left when he died. He exclaims to whoever is listening that he wants to get out of there which then makes the door of the enclosed room to swing open. Life, no matter during life or after life, makes you have an introspection evaluation on yourself to see your strengths, your weaknesses, the things you did great on, and the things you didn't do well on. This is what Garcin had. His mind constantly bombarded him with thoughts about his life before his death and what his life will become after his death. Sartre focuses more on self reflection and how it is the one way to get out.
Both characters, the prisoner and Mr. Garcin, thought about how to escape their "cave", their mental cave. Both needed to be able to figure out what to do after being shackled. The prisoner was shackled in a cave and in his mind, while Mr. Garcin was shackled in an enclosed room (Hell) and in his mind. Both Plato and Sartre focuses on the mind. They focus on the fact that it is up to ourselves to escape the shackles of life. The cave and Hell can represent their minds to because your mind isolates you from all kinds of things. It always give you one side of the perspective, but it is our responsibility to venture out and show ourselves and our minds that life isn't all about one-sided perspective. It's more about being able to see reality and experience reality by having an open-mind to new ideas, new perspectives, and new challenges that will only make us stronger.
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