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Canada Answers - Can somebody explain "His Face All Red" to me? Emily Carroll has a tendency to leave her stories down to your own personal interpretation and His Face All Red is probably one of the best examples of this.
I'll tell you my interpretation of the story but it's not exactly concrete, it could be complete nonsense to be honest haha. So, the narrator is obviously very jealous of his brother as he is popular and the narrator is not. His use of things like "this man is not my brother" is basically just to tell us that he refuses to admit that he is his brother because the narrator is embarrassed of himself compared to his brother. Then the townspeople support them in their hunt to kill "the beast" and off they go. In the woods, "the beast" is cleverly not described as the narrator quickly goes to hide out of cowardice whilst the brother shoots the wolf.
Obviously the narrator is now haunted by this and seems to be going a bit mad! Allegory of the Cave. Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms.
The allegory of the cave is supposed to explain this. In the allegory, Plato likens people untutored in the Theory of Forms to prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. All they can see is the wall of the cave. Behind them burns a fire. Between the fire and the prisoners there is a parapet, along which puppeteers can walk. From Great Dialogues of Plato (Warmington and Rouse, eds.) Here are some students’ illustrations of Plato’s Cave Go back to lecture on the Phaedo Go back to lecture on the “One Over Many” Argument Go to next lecture on Criticism of Forms Need a quick review of the Theory of Forms? Return to the PHIL 320 Home Page Copyright © 2006, S. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Chapter One A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories.
Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory.
Wintriness responded to wintriness. "And this," said the Director opening the door, "is the Fertilizing Room. " Bent over their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent-minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration. Meanwhile, it was a privilege. Responds by budding. Mr. Maanlitworks. Open House Musa Nagenda Kabana saw his father and other elders from his village get off the red bus, take down their suitcases from the top of the carriage, and look up at the gate.
After looking at the poster with approval, they noticed the boys standing in white shirts, ties and khaki shorts and hurried through the gate in the compound. When the parents were seated on chairs under the trees, and the boys on the ground, the headmaster made a short speech welcoming the parents to open day at the school. He invited the elders to have tea with him and the staff in the common room after they examined the exhibits.
Kabana and Yagunga ran to their fathers and elders as soon as the headmaster dismissed the meeting.