Allegory of the Cave Summary
In the
Allegory of Cave, Plato’s talks about a circumstance in which people are in a
cave sitting on the chairs and facing a wall. They are tied down to the chairs
and their heads are still. These people have been in the darkness for a very long
time. They see shadows of people pass by and think these shadows are the real
world. When one person comes out of the cave, he sees the light of sun, and
learns many things about world such as facing obstacles. He understands that
the shadows he saw were due to the sun. The person then goes back into cave and
tells the other people that he has seen the world and gained knowledge. He
asked to them to go out of the cave and see the things, which he had seen. The
fellow men in the cave begin to think that the man who went out and saw the
world has now become crazy.
The
allegory of the cave teaches us a valuable lesson. We learn that that we are
all prisoners of ourselves, we follow what we are accustomed to. By being a
prisoner we are unaware of many things, but if we go and search for light we
can gain much knowledge.
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