Why is the electric field inside the dielectric cancelling?

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Abhishek Das
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So, I was studying force between the plates of a capacitor when a dielectric is inserted.

Here is my question
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Shouldn't it be like this picture below
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So, why is my teacher saying that the electric field inside the dielectric cancelling.
So, what would be the force on a plate then?
 
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The reason is that the plate polarises the diaelectric and that creates the oposite field inside the other plate which cancels with the first.
 
Insight said:
The reason is that the plate polarises the diaelectric and that creates the oposite field inside the other plate which cancels with the first.
But, they are in same direction