Lou Norton Mr. Horton English I Honors 8 March 2013 Textual Analysis Fate vs. freewill is a controversial argument of today. Are peoples life controlled by a higher being or do people make their own destiny? This argument is shown in the song titled “The Cave” by Mumford and Sons. The song is about the author who is the enlightened one and has returned to his fellow prisoners to convince them to make the journey the author has made to find the truth. Secondly, this argument is shown in the song “Right Where It Belongs” by Nine Inch Nails.
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This song discusses a imaginary world made up to isolate the person from the real truth and how not everything is what it seems. Thirdly, this argument is shown in the song “Uprising” by Muse. This song talks about taking the power back from “they”(the communist government) and joining together to watch their freedom ascend and the enemies interchanging mind control to diminish. Fourthly, this argument is examined in the book “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato.
This book talks about prisoners in a cave chained to see only the wall in front of them and a fire behind them on a raised way that projects shadows of the vessels, people, and animals that pass by only to be seen in shadows by the prisoners, so to them they are the real image. Lastly, the argument fate vs. freewill is shown in a real world application; the article is called 3 year old boy dies in Worcester car crash and is about a car crash involving the mother and her three year old son that died tragically in the wreck.
In the songs and text, problems occur that the authors’ lecture about. In the song “Uprising” the singer says, “They’ll try to, push drugs that keep us all dumbed down and hope that, we will never see the truth around. ” The problem is that “they” which is the communist government are trying to fill the peoples heads with lies and hoping that they will never see the truth around them and not ever question the governments lies. In the book, “The Allegory of the Cave” Plato says, “To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. This Signifies the problem that the prisoners would be seeing the shadows on the wall in front of them, naming the shadows, and believing that this shadows were the truth of the images. The problem in the song “Uprising” and the problem in the book ” The Allegory of the Cave” are analogous because in both the people are getting a phony truth and not seeing the real truth around them. The authors make the choice to question the lies they were given to unearth the real truth. In the song “The Cave” the singer says, “Cause I need freedom now And I need to know how To live my life the way it’s meant to be. The singer is questioning how to live his life the way it is meant to be. This shows that the singer believes in freewill rather then fate because the author wants his freedom now to make his own future. In the song “Right Where It Belongs” the singer says, “See the animal in the cage that you built Are you sure what side you are on? ” The singer is questioning the people if they are the chained prisoner inside the cave or are they outside the cave looking into the sun(knowledge) and learning the truth.
The singer in “The Cave” and the singer in “Right Where It Belongs” both want freedom and to be outside the cave and not be the prisoners in the darkness of the cave. In life, there are problems people shall face that relate to the songs “The Cave”, “Uprising”, “Right Where It Belongs”, and in the book “The Allegory of the Cave. ” People need to know how important it is to question reality. If people do not question reality they are blinded from the truth around them and will stay a prisoner in their cave. A real world application for fate vs. reewill is in a article that is called 3 year old boy dies in Worcester car crash and the article says, ” Police say the children were not properly restrained, the boys were taken to a hospital, where 3-year-old Jayden Figueroa was pronounced dead. ” People who believe in freewill would say the child died because the child was not restrained in the car, or they would say the car accident was caused by human negligence. People who believe in fate would say that the child died in the car accident because the car accident was in god’s plan.
Do not be afraid to see the truth; know the difference between reality and a dream, and be the person outside the cave looking straight into the ever gleaming knowledge of the sun. Discussed in the songs “The Cave”, “Right Where It Belongs”, “Uprising”, and the book “The Allegory of the Cave” are problems focused around the argument fate vs. freewill. The problems in the texts are the prisoners in the cave and how they will not accept other ideas that go against their own, even though what they believe could be lies.
Remember to not be afraid of the truth outside the cave and to not live in darkness not accepting outside influences. Work Cited: Bellamy, Matthew. “Uprising. ” Rec. 2009. The Resistance. Muse. Muse, 2009. MP3. Mumford, Marcus. “The Cave. ” Rec. 2009. Sign No More. Mumford and Sons. Markus Dravs, 2010. MP3. Plato. The Allegory of the Cave. [Brea, CA]: P ; L Publication, 2010. Print. Reznor, Trent. “Right Where It Belongs. ” Rec. Sept. -Oct. 2004. With Teeth. Nine Inch Nails. Trent Reznor, 2005. MP3. Press, Associated. “3 -year-old Boy Dies in Worcester Car Crash. ” Boston Herald. N. p. , 12 Mar. 2013. Web. 12 Mar. 2013.
