Ancient Paragraph: Platos Allegory of the Cave and Socrates Defense

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Ancient Paragraph
Plato’s Allegory of the cave
Plato put forward the theory of Allegory of the cave also termed as the metaphor of the cave, Plato’s cave or parable of cave. The theory addresses differences on perception of people on what they see, feel or hear and reality. It was put forward as a discussion between Socrates and Glaucon who is a brother to Plato. The theory begins by Socrates asking Glaucon to imagine people who have been in prison since childhood. These people are tied so that their necks and legs are fixed, hence, this allows them to only gaze at the wall in front of them. Fire is at the back of the prisoners in between is a raised walk path, where people carrying objects walk. The people walk behind the raised path such that it is only objects shadows are seen at the wall of the cave by the prisoners. These prisoners develop a habit of discussing the shadows even games of guessing what shadow will come next. The sounds of people talking echo and the prisoners take the sound to be coming from the shadows. If one prisoner escapes from cave and returns, he will praise himself and take the real world superior to the cave. However, on return he will be blind due to the effect of sunlight on the really world. This will result in fellow prisoners hating the real world since, they will think that it made him blind.
The cave in Plato’s represents individuals who believe kn...