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Light And Dark In Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

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“Allegory of the Cave” by Plato is a classic work about the meaning and importance of the symbols light and the dark as told through conversation of two characters, Socrates and Glaucon. The light meaning happiness and the positives of life and the dark meaning the sorrowful and miserable parts of life. The piece talks about those who have grown up in both, light and dark, and the affects that it has on their life. A person who has spent their whole life chained up in darkness does not need to see the light to become a better human being. Plato spends a lot of time talking about the characters who have been stuck in darkness their whole existence. The prisoners of the dark are miserable, “…human beings living in a underground den…and have
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