Allegory Of The Cave

In Plato’s story, The allegory of the cave, the author identifies that there are many obsticals that can hold people back from reality. There are many examples in the story that show how people can hold themselves back from reality. They talk about how, the cave is their only reality, but when they open their perspective/eyes they see a whole different view. This is important to the story because the prisoners experience their own illusion of reality, but they haven’t seen what their real reality is because they have been in the cave for so long. Perspective is the key idea of this story, the prisoners are chained, so they think. The people are down in this cave for a long time and they have been shackled so they are unable to move their head and legs. A quote I found in the story states “ Because they are shackled they are unable to turn their heads around”. What if the shackles are removed, but they still don’t move because they have been chained for so long. Their brain just assumes they can’t move. They are holding their own self back from reality.
At the beginning of his reality be endured pain and confusion. When he was finally able to see what was in front of him he was mesmerized. The prisoner didn’t have anything holding him back from the truth. He got to see that there was more to his life than the light, and shadows in the cave. He opened up and left the cave to see the sun and everything around him. Some people hold themselves back mentally and emotionally, many of people like to stay in their safe place, no one likes change. Once they move out there and explore then their minds will be opened up to new