False Reality In The Allegory Of The Cave

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The Truth will set you Free Throughout everyday life, men and women are confronted with deciding whether to believe something or not. Plato describes a conversation with Socrates and his student in the dialogue, “The allegory of the cave,” written in 38 BC. The dialogue start out with men that are trapped in a cave and have been there their whole lives and are chained to only see their shadow as false realities. Suddenly, a man is unchained and is dragged out and discovers the truth to tell the other people in the cave. Throughout the story Socrates displays a false reality fed by the shadowcasters to the chained people; and the chains being broken to him finding the light. The Allegory of a Cave shows that most people have a hard time finding …show more content…

Since the chains are literally making “from turning round their heads”(par 1) impossible they only know what they are shown through the shadows. Meaning that they only know the meaning of what is shown to them through the shadows so they are tricked into a false reality. They are shown this, but they don’t question it because it’s all they know and they don’t have the information or truth to question the information that they are being fed. This case is exactly like 9/11 cause all americans, for the most part, have universal thoughts about what happened because were were all given the same information of what happened. Since it’s told through what we think of as reliable sources, like the shadowcasters to the chained people, we don’t question the truth of what happened. These casters could be considered the government relating back to what happened with 9/11. They control what “they show the puppets.”(par 1) They show the puppets information through the …show more content…

It’s the question upon entering “would he not be certain to have his eyes full of darkness”(par 29) while he knows that they are living in a false reality, yet at the same time he is going to question what he wants a believes after seeing the cave again. He eventually embraces the truth when he tells the other people what he believes, but now they don’t want to know the truth. To the people in the cave it sounds like a fantasy and think that he is lying; this riles them to the point that they catch the offender of the person unchaining people “they would put him to death”(par 30). The anger is a result of the people not wanting to let go of life as they know it even though it’s false they don’t want to know the

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