Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

An Allegory is an Allegory is an Allegory

The dripping sound of candlewax to the clean floors was only consistent sound that the prisoners heard. The faint candle light kept them occupied with images of the world, their world. It was noon for the guards they looked over the waves of the “people” one of the guards shouted: “9/11 didn't happen!” With this, a wave of speech flowed out from the stone cubicles of the prisoners: “Yes it did!” “You don’t know what youre talking about!” Like everyday the guards laughed. “Normies....”

Now that storytime is over the reader can begin to pout because they have to read an actual essay and not an “elaborate” retelling of the story at hand which is PLATO’S ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE! So let this essay begin with

AoTC) can influence students to partake in a debate. In an allegory, which will be expanded on a bit more on why the text being a good example of this makes it good for this class, but for now this helps create an ideal situation for people to bring interpretation to the forefront of the students mind. This text has a lot of allegory within it from the chained up folks being slaves to the modern era or the candle lit canvas showing the based shadow puppets being a misrepresented reality that the slaves must follow as it is the only thing they have ever known. This of course is not the job of the first section to discuss the examples of allegory so moving on take a journey to the most comfortable chair and settle as this next section is

Nice segway right? If the reader is still in the dark then let that light be given to them so they may be enlightened! Giving students a form of alternate writing will influence the students to write with similar vigor or even allow them to try to write with some skill. When a person reads something it can be forgotten unless they have for example done three assignments over the text in which they would have to read it multiple times to get the material in their minds. If that is the case then one could only assume the style of writing could influence them to write similar or use elements that prior to reading could have been lacking. Understandably though the text seems it would be hard to grasp what it is saying, but that is subtextual rather than how the writing is formated. The text is written in some form of dialogue but this is to push the lesson the story means to make. A lazy form of pushing the reader along rather than creating a transition to help them understand but that is not the way of the ‘ol philosophers to make things easy to understand.

“When you’re enjoying a particular work of fiction, your creative mind tends to latch onto that author’s writing style, word usage, and methods of characterization.” This is a great