Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’ has many way of being interpurted I believe it all dependes on the reader and the way we all so differently view life and the just how much the way we are brought up and the smallest of things can affect our out but, our view on life shows a side of humans as slaves chained in front of a fire observing the shadows of things on the cave wall in front of them. The shadows are these slaves only reality, its all they know all they’ve ever known threw out all there lifes. Plato argues that there is a basic flaw in how we humans mistake our limited perceptions as reality, truth and goodness. The allegory reveals how that flaw affects our education, our spirituality and our politics.
Going back and comparing this story to real life today we can see a lot of people in our society with very familiar traits to the people who ultimaly didn’t believe in the guy whose really seen this reality his guy whose had his vail was taken off so aruptily and he himself couldn’t believe his own eyes and this can be compared to thousand of us in the real world, sometimes we don’t want to believe what is right before our eyes because its so much easier to believe in something that isn’t there or nessesary true, but once we learn the real truth, once we learn to live with ral truth things appear much more beautiful and clear just like fnc did for the first time when he saw what was true, this reality not the reality he had been living all his this part goes toshow that when u are shown the truth you don’t ever want to go back to an illusion life actually
I believe the prison house is the sight of the prisoners world because that reality is all they know there for they see nothing wrong with the way there living and being treated, they see nothing wrong with there reality there surroundings because
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In today’s society we can view many people as prisioner’s for myself one example of this group of people would have to be the consurvitive or people who live and small towns they seem very closed minded very quick to judge ad haven’t seen or given the outside world a shot because they simply like there small
School teachers teach children there way of thinking, what they belief is right. School teaches kids the facts and gives them an education, but they never teach them how to be considerate and see things from the opposite point of view; basically, how to be open-minded. This is a huge reason why we have very many extremist and people who have a ‘my way or the highway’ mentality in our society. It’s sad and frustrating. This story has opened a conversato for me its gotten me thinkinh and questioning as to why peoples mind sets a certain way, and why is it completely different than mine and the answer is because we have all had diffent live experiences m
By the end Plato when the prisoner when back and tried tell them all of the wonders he seen when he tried to explain to them that there reality there way of thinking wasn’t true they pushed him away almost calling him crazy that he’s the blinded one. This can be compared to family matters in my experience I have family members like that in a scense are blinded just like these men, so when it comes to speaking with them or sitting at the table together I remain quiet a lot of the time, you know why? Because in the past when speaking about certain things or saying something that’s true or ‘different’ they react emotionally or say something that is defensive or argumentative. Its so annoying. This makes people like myself feel like I might as well just not talk because nothing that I say can change ever there mind because there so closed off as people, because there reality is the only one they’ve ever lived.
I think the worlds problem is “And when he remembers his old habitation, and the wisdom of the den and his fellow-prisoners, do you not suppose that he would felicitate himself on the change, and pity them?”
When u leave your old friends with bad habits and completely get rid of toxic people you cant help but pity them because they too have the ability to grow and get out of those bad habits.
