Reality And Reality In Plato's The Allegory Of The Cave

Reality is being ignored throughout life. In Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave, the technique gives a strong metaphor about the real world today. It is an excerpt that shows a good idea of how not everyone has the desire to open up their mindsets or to learn the reality of the worldly goods. This reading requires readers to dig in deeper to find the message Plato is delivering. We don’t have our eyes open to the deeper reality but to the surface reality. He begins with giving an image of a cave scenery and how the only option you can have been to looking forward. All you can picture was shadows of puppetry on the walls and nothing else. The prisoners were so adapt to the darkness that when they were dragged into the reality, it burned; pain occurrence. He discusses how we are afraid to adapt to new things with comparisons of the pain light gives to prisoners. The comparisons with what you see behind darkness reveal how society today’s viewpoint needs further discussion; to seek the truth of art. “Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education

Impressed, I thought Plato’s writing was remarkably clever. Though I felt “increasingly frustrated at not being able to” (Malcolm 189) apprehend what he is trying to formulate a comparison to, I learned that we are just like prisoners locked in their cage or in this case a cave, with limitations to what we perceive in the world. Unfortunately, we stick to the things we are satisfied with instead of trying to cope with unhappiness. We are not contemplating with possessions and with limited knowledge of life, we decide to disdain the truth, ignoring the bigger images in life because our own selves want to escape reality. Nevertheless, individuals refer living in their own shells, facing false reality since that is what they are usually comfortable