Plato is known to many as one of the most influential and greatest philosophers to have lived. Plato represents his idea of reality and the truth about what we perceive through one of his famous writings, "The Allegory of the Cave". In “The Allegory of the Cave”, Plato’s overall message is shown by the use of perspective, symbolism, and character development is that people shouldn’t live a life full of fear for. change
Plato’s allegory of the cave begins with the description of prisoners in a cave with their own perspective; they are kept in a cave with no natural daylight, they are chained facing a wall and cannot move or look around. These prisoners have always been like this and nothing else. The prisoners see these shadows created by
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He experiences the true reality, sees the sun is the light of all things, a reflection in the water and just expands his mind and knowledge. The most significant event is whenever the free prisoner comes back to tell everyone what he experienced but they are still stuck in the false reality which shows us how uneducated/ignorant they are and leads to the development of the theme. Which later tells us that the trapped prisoners are just being played with and told false statements that they believe is the truth because they don't know any better. A key part in this story is when he comes back to tell the others, but they reject him and try to fight him because he isn’t recognizing the shapes so they think him going out made him stupid. This also sends an important message that people trapped in their own little “cave” are ignorant to others and rather be in the familiarized things because people are scared of change and don't want to leave their comfort