Plato's Allegory professes that change comes with experience, which a lot of the time is extremely painful and takes a while. My experience with abusive relationships accompany this concept.
In Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave", Plato used the cave as a symbolic representation of how the prisoners see the world versus how it really is. The prisoner who was freed saw the reality of the world contrary to what he believed while in the cave. The prisoners who were never freed have no other knowledge of the world that lies outside the cave. The prisoner who was released went through 3 different phases. The cave, all he had known was the cave. The release, when he was freed and got a new perspective on things which took time. The return, when he was forced back and ridiculed for what he had shared about the outside world.
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After one of the prisoners was freed, He was in shock about the outside world. It took him some time to realize that his life in the cave was not how reality was. “He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world. And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves; then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven; and he will see the sky and the stars by night better than the sun or the light of the sun by day?(P.3)” The text argues that it took the prisoner a while to grow accustomed to the real world, he was not used to seeing the world outside the cave. After I left the abusive relationship, it took me so long to realize that I was previously in an awful situation. Once I met my current boyfriend I finally realized that my past wasn't the reality of every relationship. He treats me with so much kindness and love that it took me awhile to get used to it. I was nervous that eventually the “Honeymoon phase” would eventually wear out and I would be in yet another abusive