Plato's Allegory Of The Cave Essay

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave has many meanings and delivers a powerful message. The meanings and powerful messages can be connected to today’s society and social conditions in which people live in. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave consists of prisoners that see shadows casted by the ones keeping the prisoners. The shadows casted on the wall by a fire can be truly misleading. The prisoners are misguided and don’t worry or think about freedom. The one that escapes and follows the light sees the true world and becomes enlightened. There are many connections that can be developed to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. The prisoners in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave can represent the modern day prisoners, citizens of a dictatorship, citizens of third

Citizens of a dictatorship, for example North Korean citizens, are brainwashed into believing false information. The majority of the world’s past or present dictatorships have brainwash their citizens or presented false information to their citizens to stay in power. Uneducated people does not mean that the person did not get schooling, to me an uneducated person is a person that is not aware or have any knowledge. Knowledge can be obtained from anything, from experiences to schooling. Knowledge can be obtained by the ears and the eyes. A person may be uneducated in one subject. For example, a cab driver is educated about the streets within a city but the cab driver may not know anything about outer space. Or the other way around, an austronunt may be educated within astronomy but may not know about the streets within his city. In the case of the uneducated people, the marionette players are themselves since they may of had a choice to learn either from schooling or by simply reading a book. The scenario is different of a person from a third world country that does not have little or nothing. The dictatorships prevent the citizens from seeing the truth. The uneducated person is prevents from seeing the truth from their financial and state