Blog 6: The Prisonhouse of Language

In the Allegory of the Cave the people were limited in their ability to express their experience this was because of sensory deprivation. Everything they experienced was from the cast of shadows and never in the light of reality. Their perceptions were imprisoned by the lack of insight to reality and this was because they were confined to the cave. 

        In a similar way our own experiences are limited by how we perceive things and this also can effects our ability to express ourselves. Sometimes expressing one’s self can be difficult because we cannot communicate in words our true thoughts and feelings. The concept of the Prison house of Language refers to the constrains we have in expressing what we truly wish to infer. 

       Love is an experience where at times people find it difficult to properly communicate. The word love is found in the prison house of language because it is a term in which feelings aren't sufficiently expressive enough. People aren't able to say the words they are feeling. At times we don't have sufficiently ability to express the feelings through language. In first time experiences such as a magnificent sunset or a beautiful work of art our lack of previous expose to such situation inhabits our ability to process what is felt and to put into words. This is cause from the prison we are limited by.