Shadows In Plato's Cave

In Plato’s cave, he illustrates how we see with our eyes. The people in the cave were shackled and could only see shadows ahead them. “You think the prisoners would imagine that the speaker were anyone other than the shadows passing in front of them.” “See anything besides the shadows that are [continually] projected on the wall opposite them by the glow of the fire”. In life today, the way the people in the cave saw with their eyes, seeing patterns in the shadows, we see just like them because see the same thing everyday when we head to work or school.

In the Cave the people are trained to see only the shadows with the little light that is given from behind them. They see the shadowed objects in the same order every time. It is like us students,

we see the same classrooms and lab everyday while we are in school, our eyes were trained to see the same objects everyday. The only difference is that we see the same people everyday with new added people throughout the halls because we all like to change it up sometimes and walk a new route. Also when the people are set free, they have a hard time adjusting to any bright light because they have lived in the cave since their childhood and have only seen a little light on the opposite wall from them. Their eyes are in pain as soon as the bright lights hit their face and have to squint and it takes a little while to be used to the changes.

It is alike us because at night we are surrounded by the darkness and by the morning the sun is out and as bright as ever and so we have to squint until our eyes adjust to the change that suddenly occured. It also happens when we wake up during the night, we have to see where we are going so we turn on the light and it blinds us for some time. In all we see with our eyes like the people in the cave and we always will even after so many years.

Overall, the people in the cave and us all use our eyes in the same why. We will never use them differently because there is not really anything else our eyes can do. And later in the future I still believe that our eyes will work in the same way even with technology improving. Our eyes can also deceive us in many shapes or forms because the shadow could of been something very different then seeing it in light with our own eyes. They will forever deceive us.