In the reading “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato, Plato had given a situation in which two men had been having a conversation. The reading includes two men, Socrates and Glaucon, Socrates had been talking to Glaucon about a situation that people had been taken from their homes during their childhood and thrown into caves chained up, from their necks and ankle they had been restricted movement and were not able to turn around and had the heat of the sun hitting their back, the only thing that they could have done was face the wall. They never saw the entrance of the cave they were only able to see the shadows of objects. People would be walking behind them with cut out shapes of animals etc. From the outside of the cave, allowing the sun to make a shadow of the shape. They prisoners never saw any type of animals or anything and when they the shadow of a cow and how it sounded they would just see a big circular shape. Socrates told Glaucon that what the prisoners thought was real was just an illusion.
The prisoners had been living in this illusion and they didn’t know because they thought that everything that they had been seen while been in the cave was real. After a while the people that had kept the prisoners in the cave for so long had released them at a point in their lives and showed them the objects that they had seen while they were in the cave. They had been going around and showing them different things to see if the prisoner recognized it but they would deny it because in the cave all they saw was shadows. After a while they realize that they have been living in a lie for their lives. When the prisoner realizes that all the people that are still in the cave are living in that same lie he was he feels bad for them.
What I think that the author tells us is that there are so many ways to view something it’s just up to you and where you have been for most of your life, to believe in what they say.
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