Tag: marionette

  • English 30-1 Tips for Personal Response to Texts

    Examples of Student Responses to English 30-1 Diploma The Personal Response Assignment from June 2006: (literature in the question is included in the exam) The puppet master in Keith Carter’s “Pinocchio” manipulates the marionette’s strings, giving it the illusion of free will. In the poem “Come In,” the speaker resists the allure of an appealing…

  • Plato’s Cave Allegory

    from Republic, BOOK VII And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs…