The speaker identifies “how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened”. The analogy Glaucon makes on paragraph four is that that is a strange image with strange prisoners. The tone of Socrates is wise or clever while questioning Glaucon. Glaucon’s attitude is just him agreeing with whatever Socrates says and this is significant because this shows that even he does not know what Socrates is saying to convey how complicated this allegory is. Humans honor and congratulate themselves from finding out what they think is real but they are lies. This still happens today. This analogy was effective but it did not show the whole thing so we can think. He said that, “…my opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort.” That shows that the truth is not in the open but you have to work to find it.
Paragraphs 1 through 35 appeals primarily to logos because he is giving Glaucon information on what is happening in the story and in real life. Logos it the most prominent of all the other styles. We are blinded by what we are allowed to see but to see more you have to do bad and to pass boundaries. The distinction is of the “clever rogue” and that “he is the reverse of blind”, because he goes passed boundaries his knowledge is greater than an average person but since he is rogue he is of evil and mischief which is equal to his knowledge The children that had heavy weights attached to them since birth would know less because they had a boundary or a burden holding them down and not bringing them to their full potential.
His question is showing that he is scared that the people that got past the boundaries of knowledge know too much and might use that to their advantage for a better life. It shifted from proving to prescribing at the end of paragraph 60. His assumptions make sense but on a lower level of thought. He is not thinking deep enough. The main argument on paragraph 61 and 65 is that people that do not want to rule will be fit to rule and those who want to rule are unfit. “… the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst. If you do not want to do something you will not be over dramatic and do extra things because you just want to get it over with.
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