O aprendizado de imagens e palavras: aproximações do filme “O enigma de Kaspar Hauser” de Werner Herzog e o “Mito da caverna de Platão”

Abstract

This work is a study that sought similarities between the myth of Plato's cave and the film "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser", from the German director Werner Herzog. The central theme revolves around a question while intrinsic and fundamental to every human being who is awakening to the issue of learning. However, there is no learning, but knowledge can go beyond appearances, an awakening to the critical sense which leads men to realize the intrinsic details of knowledge. From there we tried to analyze to what extent we can establish a connection between the character Kaspar Hauser Werner Herzog and the prisoner of the "Myth of the Cave" by Plato. This research was qualitative and exploratory, with the use of information from the source literature and filmography (moving image). The survey results lead us to reaffirm that learning is fundamental to the human being does not remain in a state of lethargy, numb, but that can, through this process to go beyond himself and thus to contemplate the sun that illuminates the human consciousness, as in Plato's prisoner. We cannot allow others to intercept our view of the sun, but it must always be a light in the immense and inexhaustible way is to learn. The prisoner described by Plato was the one who did not let others obscured the light of his knowledge, but was slowly realizing that learning is related to out of himself, that was the situation and discover the new. Kaspar Hauser went through the same process in a different period and without having had access to the books of Plato, was also able to discover that a great sun shone within him; pity that, when life was to reveal these wonders, your tutor will capped the sun forever