Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

During Classical Greece many great philosophers emerged and all of them were trying to understand the truth of the world such as, why are we here, what is reality, and is God real or were we merely created due to a combination of reactions. Truth can be explained both as information that stands the tests of time and an absolute honest fact/statement believed to be in absence of lies and irrefutable. Plato, one of the great Classical Greek philosophers, wrote the Allegory of the Cave in response to his mentor Socrates execution. Many citizens of Classical Greece were enamored with rationality at the time; the rational or logical argument behind a phenomenon or event was finally being seen as the truth instead of everything was the cause of a

Even though the culture was shifting to put more importance on the logical proof to the truth or an event, phenomenon, or health issue it was moving slowly. Plato used The Allegory of the Cave to expedite the process by breaking it down for the masses instead of trying to explain it as one philosopher would to another. Plato was successful due to his use of both metaphors and imagery in his Allegory. He used imagery to relate the cave that held the prisoners to the world that we live in, Such as, “At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; …” (Plato lines 40-45). Plato was able to describe the terrible state the prisoners were in and then uses metaphors to relate the state the prisoners were in to the state that the world is in. The metaphors relate truth to the light and shadows and the first or easiest thing one can see and strengthens Plato’s underlying message by both simplify it and relating it to the audience. The Allegory of the cave demonstrates the