In The Four Idols that Francis Bacon wrote speak of the false notions made by previous idols or “phantom” images. “The idols and false notions which are now in possession of the human understanding, and have taken deep root therein, not only so beset men’s minds that truth can hardly find entrance.” Bacon have thought these teaching to have been poluting the minds of others and thus disregarded what these others said. All four of his “Idol” are great in depth explanations on the truth behind each one.
Bacon’s Idols of the Theater did not have a great effect on me. Bacon was saying that the theater often was corrupted images that was established on the stage for public viewing. “In the plays of this philosophical theater....that stories invented for the stage are more compact and elegant, and more as one would wish them to be, than true stories
out of history.” (26) This is telling us how many false notions are given while seeing a play, now a days it would also included movies as well. Men make these films on
historical topics and turn them into compact love stories when they really weren’t that way in history. “So many stage-plays representing worlds of their own creation after an unrea
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