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Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

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In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” we are told of prisoners who spent their entire lives in a cave, chained to the floor. In the dark cave the only thing that the prisoners get to see are shadows cast by figures behind them, and they take these figures as the real thing because this is all they’ve ever seen. These prisoners represent humans, and our boring, unadventurous lives where we perform the same the same routines daily. Through this story, Plato is trying to tell us that we need to break this habit because there is more out there than what we do. He’s trying to tell us that we’re just alive and not actually living our lives to their full potential. This story can be interpreted many ways whether it be individually, politically, or
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