Can Humans Completely Know the Truth? Or is Illusion Necessa

Truth is defined as Honesty: the real state of things: FACT. But how do we know if there is any truth in the world at all today? What if we mistake the actual truth with illusion? I do believe that illusion is necessary in human existence. I believe that without illusion in the world we would all go mad. We use illusion in the form of lies to cover up our mistakes and pain to keep ourselves and others from the actual truth which would be reality. We have all, at one time told a lie to cover up the truth, because in reality the truth hurts. So maybe, in reality we actually make reality an illusion.

Remedios Varo, Visit to the Plastic Surgeon, 1960, is a good example of illusion. In this work of art the artist shows you a woman, veiled walking into a plastic surgeons office. Or is it more than that? The woman is very beautifully built, we would all kill for a body like hers, yet her nose is elongated and disfigured. Her actions show that she wants to change; she does not accept herself for who she is. She wants to create an illusion of beauty, like the figure shown in the window. The woman that is veiled believes that the woman in the window is the perfect form of beauty and if she changes herself to look like her, sh

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Reality and truth itself are an illusion. The author is trying to show us that money is an illusion along with love. We would all be the same, clones of one another, with no feelings no thought, no individuality. He is almost tricking you into believing that this is how the people actually feel and look.

Is illusion necessary for the human mind? Yes by all means it is. In reality was trading in his wife’s “false gems” a good idea? Of course the fortune he inherited from this stumble was great, yet he would never be able to find another love like his first wife.

James Ensor’s, L’Intrigue, 1890 is also an excellent show of illusion. Just like in Visit to the Plastic Surgeon, the artist here is hiding the true inner and outer beauty of the figures. I believe it keeps us sane and our souls settled. When he takes the jewelry to the jewelers to be priced he is then told that they are not false at all. The only thing that he felt inclined to blame her for was her love for the theater and her love for false jewelry. After his beautiful wife died that he loved so dearly, he became very poor and unhappy.

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