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A Group Of Prisoners In George Orwell's The Allegory Of The Cave

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In the allegory, a group of prisoners confined in a cave since birth where their backs to the entrance unable to turn their head and no knowledge with the outside world. Occasionally people and other things past back the cage opening, casting shadows and echoes on to wall of the captive face. The prisoners name and classified these allusions believing to be real being. Suddenly, one of the prisons are free. When told the things around him are real while the shadows are reflections. The prisoner could not believe it. The shadows appear a lot clearer to him but gradually his eyes adjust to where he understands actually what he is seeing. The prisoner return to cave to share his discovery but he is no longer use to the darkness. He had a hard
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