ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE
True reality is not obvious to most of us. We mistake what we see and hear for reality and truth. This is the basic premise for Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, in which prisoners sit in a cave, chained down, watching images cast on the wall in front of them. They accept these views as reality and they are unable to grasp their overall situation.The cave and images are a ruse, a mere shadow show orchestrated for them by unseen men. At some point, a prisoner is set free and is forced to see the situation outside the cave and at the time he found out the reality. The prisoner decides to return to the cave to let his friends know the true and reality but his friends thinks that he is crazy or that he is lying. They only believe what they are seeing.
The stage in my life to socrates description of the cave is that I am already outside the cave. I am just beginning adulthood and i am experiencing new things like many students that enter to colleges expecting good times, knowledge, friendships, and a new sense of direction.
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