In Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave," Socrates tells a story to his student Glaucon to explain how no matter what situation you may find yourself in the world around you still moves and is very much real. Plato uses symbols to bring out the significance of his elements to his readers and viewers. He is teaching his student a story with a philosophic meaning. Every object is identified as representation of a symbol that makes the effect for viewers deeper.
Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” sets its story’s foundation on a philosophic setting. Plato is explaining an individuals experience to exposure. Their way to adapt is difficult but it does interpret that it wasn’t theirs. The cave is what the world is perceived as along with chains that bind them to that world. Imprisoned mentally and physically had caused confusion and disorientation to the prisoners. Objects began to appear strange and foreign since they are used to shadows.
Eventually, the sun is the source of power behind the illusion of a non-existent world. It is their path to the real world, the new world. While kept in the darkness of a surreal environment, every man and woman interacts in a social habitat. Plato’s Allegory of the cave is also used to show how one world rose from simple illusion to being philosophically illuminated.
Plato has addressed many different ideas on human behavior and philosophy. The Allegory of the Cave can be applied to today’s society in many ways. Some individuals are trapped in their own personal entity on a daily basis. Some can say they are chained to their home or to their careers and these can substitute as a cave. Financially, debt and other burdens can also be other similarities.
Mmm--some parts of his piece are clear, but some others are not, and I think the word choice is partly what is getting in the way. For example, I have no idea by what you mean when you say " Eventually, the sun is the source of power behind the illusion of a non-existent world." Could you rephrase this?
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