containment: the disciplined vs undisciplined soul

Interested in the idea of faulty containers for Project 1 -

Taken from Marymount University:

The wine jar metaphor: desires and strength of will

. . . Socrates contrasts the uncontrolled life his opponent praises with that of a self-controlled and ethical person. To illustrate his point he draws an analogy with wine jars--some intact, others leaky. "See if you don't say," proposes Socrates,

that, in a fashion, this metaphor expresses the difference

between the two lives: the self-controlled and the unrestrained.

There are two men, both of whom have many jars; those of the

first are sound and full, one of wine, another of honey, a third

of milk, and many others have a multitude of various

commodities, yet the source of supply is meager and hard to

obtain and only procurable with a good deal of exertion. Now

the first man, when he has filled his jars, troubles no more

about procuring supplies, but, so far as they are concerned,

rests content; but the other man, though his source of supply is

difficult also, yet still possible, and his vessels are perforated

and rotten, is forced to keep on trying to fill them both night and

day on pain of suffering the utmost agony. --Gorgias