Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

In Plato's Cave, the prisoners are tied down with chains, hand, and foot under bondage. In fact they have been there since their childhood, which much like matrix people are seen as in reality being bound within a pad whereby they are feed images/illusions which keep them in a dreamlike state and they have been in this bondage by virtue of the virtual reality pads in the fields since their youth and like the allegory of the Cave they are completely unaware of such a predicament since in regards to the Cave they have become conditioned to the shadows that dance upon the wall and do not see the true forms of which the shadow is a mere non-substantial pattern of. In the Matrix, within the person of the virtual world, it is a non-substantial pattern of the world, it is reflective of the real world, it is a shadow in its form and nature being a simulation of the world at a particular point in history. Like the prisoners in the cave, those who are prisoners in the system of a matrix are held in their calm state by reason of the illusion that stimulates them and tricks them into remaining asleep or rather into being ignorant of the fact that they are prisoners in pads so the machines can feed on their bio-energy. The shadows on the wall which are reflective is to keep the prisoners on the Cave unaware of the fact that they are prisoners, that they are under bondage and have never truly seen life outside of the Cave. The shadows on the walls are by puppets, perchance puppeteers. They could be seen as the agents, whom within the Matrix being programs are to maintain that the humans asleep in the matrix remain in their comatose state, they are to support the illusion, by keeping man actively ignorant of what is truly happening, so they never wake up. The puppeteers of the puppets which are seen on the wall to keep the mind of the prisoners stimulated so they never realize that they are chained, and only have a vision that is straightforward, which is basically saying their minds are only subjected to a single perspective and they are blind to the degree of seeing within other perspectives, broader perspectives and this in and of itself is a limitation.

Written in 1845, “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself” details the events that Douglass is faced with throughout his journey from slavehood to freedom. In a sense, it is this very journey that mirrors an allegory taught by a famously wise Ancient Greek. This is, of course, the “Allegory of the Cave” from Plato’s Republic. These two texts and the concepts that they present are no doubt parallels, which is why this topic is an extremely interesting and philosophical one to discuss.

The allegory of the cave proposed by Plato includes the representation of the levels of knowledge. As we get closer to the exit, we get more knowledgeable and wiser we get, thus becoming better selves. Literature represents part of this knowledge, it has been a fundamental part of understanding our society, and has archived and developed the events and thoughts that made the world in which we live today. The more we read, the more we understand about us as well as learning from other peoples’ experiences. Literature has gathered all the information we know so far and has brought us out of the cave by showing us how humanity has evolved the we know it.

In Plato’s, Allegory of the cave, a key theory I found was the importance of education. Plato uses an “allegory to illustrate the dilemma facing the psyche in the ascent to knowledge of the imperishable and unchanging forms” (104) Based on my research of the republic, the allegory can reveal multiple hidden messages. Plato describes, ordinary mortals are chained within an underground chamber, which according to Fiero, represents the psyche imprisoned within the human body. These mortals can’t look sideways only straight ahead. They also can’t leave the cave and are facing a cave wall that they can see shadows from a fire of what they imagine are men. These mortals have been in this cave since childhood, which makes them believe the shadows themselves are the men, not a reflection of an actual man. Again, according to Fiero, the light, represents true knowledge, and the shadows on the walls of the cave represent the imperfect and perishable imitations of the forms that occupy the world of the senses.

Plato's allegory of the cave, it isn't just the individual who excepts self exile, self policing, and repression. It is culture and those that govern us as well. In the film finding Nemo, Nemo and his shortcomings the lucky flipper is as much is own doing as it is the overprotective father. The Ascension toward freedom is costly and suffering is incurred.

In Plato's “Allegory Of The Cave” he expresses that people are innately born with abilities like thinking and communicating, but their individual outlook on life is relative to their experiences in life; their educational awareness. Like the men chained in the “cave”, restricted to see only shadows of images cast by fire light and muffled echo sounds of voices; if one is restricted from experiencing new things, places or ideas, then in life their reality is limited to only the experiences they have had. The shadows the prisoners see on the wall are their reality not the actual objects that made the images. As our text “”Think” buy Judith A. Boss indicates, experience and facts we receive from additional resources is the basic level of thinking. Without continued facts and experiences, without education, our thinking is limited to our narrowed reality (shadows).

In Plato’s, “Allegory of the Cave”, a key theory I found was the importance of gaining knowledge. Plato uses an “allegory to illustrate the dilemma facing the psyche in the ascent to knowledge of the imperishable and unchanging forms” (Fiero, 104). Based on my research of the Republic, the allegory can reveal multiple hidden messages. Plato describes in the Allegory, ordinary mortals who are chained within an underground chamber, which according to Fiero, represents the psyche imprisoned within the human body. These mortals can’t look sideways, but rather only straight ahead. On top of this, they also can’t leave the cave. These prisoners are facing a cave wall that they can only see shadows reflecting from a fire of what they imagine are men. These mortals have been in this cave since childhood, which makes them believe the shadows themselves are the men, not a shadow of an actual man. Again, according to Fiero, the light, represents true knowledge, and the shadows on the walls of the cave represent the imperfect and perishable imitations of the forms that occupy the world of the senses.

Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” from his book, The Republic, highlights the ignorance our society faces by utilizing imagery and extended metaphors within a fictional conversation between his mentor, Socrates, and his brother, Glaucon. In my opinion, Plato’s main argument or point, in a sense, is that our people don’t question “why we are here” or “why this is happening” enough. We, as a society, merely accept the state of reality that we see and do not “turn our heads” around to see the bigger picture. Plato’s allegory reflects Socrate’s Theory of Forms, the things we see within the world are a pure reflection of the things the world represents. A metaphor of Socrate’s Theory of Forms is presented in Plato’s story when the prisoners, while

Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” represents how people identify and process everything around us. People rely on their immediate senses to understand and make their own opinion of reality. We have to touch, hear, or smell something in order to believe it. Our biggest misconception come from our sight. The posters and advertisements are real but it does not mean that what’s in them is real as well. The models on the advertisements we know are real but the photo may not be real. There are many tools they use to make the model look exactly how we think she should look. In reality it took a lot of work and effort to make that image seem real. Reality is we all have flaws, but flaws are not advertised. Perfection appears to be reality and the

In Plato’s, “Allegory of the Cave”, “a group of philosophically unenlightened prisoners are thrown in chains and imprisoned at birth in an underground cave. From their point of view, they are able to see nothing but moving shadows cast on a back wall. In time, the prisoners started to believe that each new shadow seen is a part of reality. Plato, being a philosopher, is not content with this situation. So he breaks his chains and walks towards the light at the cave exit.

The Allegory of the Cave by Plato is an article about the lack of awareness of humanity and is caused by the idea of the unknown. I think some people are quick to assume based on what they see or think and do not try to figure out the actual facts. I truthfully feel that it is unjust to not be certain about factual events and base your opinion on close-minded knowledge to what only seems right to you. Those prisoners who suffered and were shackled only relied on the shadows that they had seen with nothing to relate it to realistically. This lend them to only draw close to the items that seemed familiar without even trying to learn or understand the other objects. You can apply that to right now situations.

Allegory is a literary device used by authors to enhance and also add meaning to their stories. It is a type of extended metaphor, and uses characters, places, objects and symbolism as the main devices with which the author attaches multiple meanings and purposes. By doing this it allows for multiple audiences to derive their own meaning and also have various interpretations. Allegories are designed so that they can effectively have a critique on a particular topic, but in a way that is not invective and can estrange readers. Despite this the critique is usually of a universal nature and so readers can apply the critique to their own context and lives, and thus gain a deeper understanding.

The Allegory of the Cave demonstrates true knowledge and evidence. The moral of the story is about people in a cave bound to a wall. They only see shadows on the walls of humans carrying artifacts. They believe what they can see and what they know, nothing else. It would be impossible to create new ideas in your mind or imagine a new color. A man is released, no longer seeing the shadows he saw, but new things he had never seen or known. He was overwhelmed knowing the sun could be creating the shadows on the walls or seeing a color he had never seen before. The prisoner would most likely return to the cave to tell the other prisoners what he saw. The other prisoners most likely would not believe him. They have believed the same thing forever

Philosophy can be broken up into two words, philo meaning love and sophia meaning intellectual exercise that is supposed to result in wisdom. When one combines the two words together, the word philosophy is made and philosophers are called lovers of wisdom. The Greeks were very amused with wanting to know more about the natural world and were entertained by learning the abstract reasons for the reality of the world. Multiple philosophers desire obtaining higher wisdom, resulting in them thinking critically and deeper than just the surface level of knowledge. The topics ancient Greek philosophers studied ranged from mathematics, the sciences, political ideas, or any subject that interested them and improved their knowledge. Plato,(ca. 427-347

Plato (429 B.C - 347 B.C) was a philosopher as well as a mathematician. He is considered to be the most influential figure in the development of philosophy in Western literary tradition. As an Athenian citizen he was so self conscious about how philosophy should be conceived, he raises questions about political events and intellectual movements around his time. The period from 387 B.C to 361 B.C is often called Plato's "middle" or transitional period and reveal Plato's method of hypothesis, The Republic is part of his middle dialogues where he discusses the virtues of justice, courage and wisdom of an individual and in the society. The Republic covers most of Plato's thought on philosophy and it includes the Allegory of the Cave where he