Assignment 2

In chapter 25, the red tinted glasses is a metaphor used to describe how ones 'vision' or views of the world and the universe may be made limited by a tool of restraint (which I believe is a metaphor for "influence").

In 'Sophie's World' Alberto Knox explains to Sophie that if she puts on the glasses everything she sees will be in a shade of red, preventing her from seeing things in their 'true' colour. This example is used to show how as individuals we see the same physical things in different ways to other individuals, due to the way we were brought up and the things we have experienced as well as our origins. In other words, we all see things in a different 'colour' because the colour of the tint in our 'glasses' are uniquely different from one another.

Personally, I believe that we are all born with perfectly clear lenses which have fogged up into a particular shade of colour as we have developed into maturity. Each colour being a mixture of the colours corresponding with the influence received from the amount of Rationalism and Empiricism. Some people see eye to eye as they have glasses of a similar tint, but never an identical tint, as we never experience the exact same things in the exact same way as others. Some people never get along because their 'lens colours' are so different.

For example, if Person A had a 'yellow' tinted perspective of all things, because he had yellow tinted 'glasses' and saw a clean, blank, pure white piece of paper. He would see the piece of paper as a yellow coloured paper. If Person B came along and had a 'green' perspective of things, he would see that very same piece of paper in a green colour. Thus, if both persons shared their views on what colour they believed the piece of paper was, they would disagree. This ideology of perspective is what causes agreements and disagreements in our world today, and in a larger scale, peace and war.