Allegory Of The Cave Summary

In the “Allegory of the Cave,” Plato talks about prisoners who are held prisoners since their childhood. These prisoners don’t know anything they are not allowed to move the only thing they can see are the shadows of objects that are reflected by the fire. In this essay Plato is comparing us to the prisoners that are held in the cave and in order to get out of the cave is through education. If we don’t get educated we would never comprehend the real meaning of the things, we would be like the prisoners that thought the shadows were the real truth. Summarizing all this information I can say that the author main claim is the effect education has on oneself. In the next paragraphs, I’m going to talk about how everyone is already born with the

knowledge, knowledge is getting through effort, and about how we can comprehend.
First, when the author talks on page 307 about how everyone is already born with knowledge he is saying that everyone is born with the skill to learn. What he means by this is that knowledge is already inside us and all we have to do is turn it on. Knowledge plays an important role since we come to this world, without knowledge we would not get educated it. Because knowledge is get it through experience throughout all our life. Education plays an important role in ourselves it makes us be more open mind to the world. As humans, we want to let our mind flow we don’t want to be like the prisoner in the cave where they were close minded and closed to the world.
Second, we must put an effort on obtaining knowledge because if you can obtain knowledge then you can use it.

If you allow yourself to become educated it is not only beneficial to yourself but also to other people and to the world. Like Plato says in the essay that if the prisoner who was let free comes back to the cave with the real truth of the world he would tell the others prisoners that the shadows are not the real truth. By receiving an education you are now able to see the world for what it really is. We don’t want to be all locked away in our own heads, where we can’t understand the real meanings of things, everyone should want to be educated.

Lastly, getting an education allow us to comprehend the reasons of nature and the purpose of it. like Plato says in his essay about the prisoner who understood that the sun is the real reason, why there is life on this planet. We want to be like this prisoner that comprehend the real meanings of the sun by just seeing him. If we think more deeply we would understand many things that we don’t get like why seasons occur each year. The only way to respond this kind of questions is by feeding our mind with knowledge. We have to use education as an effective tool rather than keeping our minds in a

prison.
As a final point, I think education plays a major role on oneself because it impacts our lives in one way or another. Sometimes having no knowledge is not going to help to succeed in life while having knowledge is going to take you as far as you want to go. Plato claims in his essay the effect education have on oneself for me this claim that he made in his essay is proper for the scene he gives about the cave. Without obtaining education we would never advance in our lives we would be in a prison like the prisoners from the cave. Plato wants we move out of the cave so we become enlightened about the real world