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Essay / Allegory of Plato's Cave: The World of Beauty - 1373
Thus, we can assume that the audience itself, the members who believe in the content of the advertisements and its sincerity, as well as the people who are agree with the portrait of the women who are created are the only prisoners in this particular situation. “For them,” I said, “the truth would literally be only the shadows of images” (Plato 868). On the other hand, according to Jean Kilbourne, author of "Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt," what is not mentioned to the public is the fact that many women, from a very young age, during the discovery process of the truth and being blinded by the “light,” they struggle with depression, low self-esteem, eating disorders, and sexual harassment. “I argue that all girls growing up in this culture are sexually abused – abused by the pornographic images of female sexuality that have surrounded them since birth, abused by all the violence against women and girls, and abused by the harassment and constant threats of violence. » (Kilbourne