Allegory of the Cave by Plato Analysis
Words: 495 Pages: 2 5293The “Allegory of The Cave” presents a group of people as prisoners who have been chained together in a cave their entire life. The cave is opened behind them where there is a fire and in between the fire there is a pathway where people walk holding all sorts of objects; statues, images of animals, trees etc. also making the appropriate sound. So, what the prisoners in that cave see are only the shadows that are being cast on that […]