Allegory Of The Cave Commentary
Commentary
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is the factual perception on what human’s ignorant minds accept whatever they perceive without envisioning the reality. His use of “dark” imagery illustrates how a person is trapped and isolated in his own “cave” and conceives everything without visually seeing the “light” outside the cave. He conveys the idea that the “prisoners” are stuck and “chained” in their own reality because they were only shown one perspective from “childhood”. Plato wisely suggests the idea of using our senses and how we individually depend on them to find the truth outside of our “cave”. Morality being that the prisoners can remain in the cave, scared of knowing the truth.
Inside my “cave” [I] was “chained” like a “prisoner” and had to judge people through the interpretation of the media. [I] was left in the “dark” to perceive things that the media was showing and interpret them through the “shadows” they had presented. [I] had to rely on my senses to judge another person by the “illusions” the media had created. As [I] got older and wiser, [I] started to question my interpretation on media and how it “dragged” me with its “reflections”. [I] unchained myself to discover the “light” outside of the cave and get a “clearer vision” on all the knowledge [I] needed to make a sensible decision. …show more content…
Through his ideas and archetypal use of shadows, Plato suggests that the humans are viewing images through someone else’s perspective and that it will be the only reality they will know. He uses shadows to represent the “illusions of reality” because the prisoners have been their “from their childhood” and the only true objects they know are
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is the factual perception on what human’s ignorant minds accept whatever they perceive without envisioning the reality. His use of “dark” imagery illustrates how a person is trapped and isolated in his own “cave” and conceives everything without visually seeing the “light” outside the cave. He conveys the idea that the “prisoners” are stuck and “chained” in their own reality because they were only shown one perspective from “childhood”. Plato wisely suggests the idea of using our senses and how we individually depend on them to find the truth outside of our “cave”. Morality being that the prisoners can remain in the cave, scared of knowing the truth.
Inside my “cave” [I] was “chained” like a “prisoner” and had to judge people through the interpretation of the media. [I] was left in the “dark” to perceive things that the media was showing and interpret them through the “shadows” they had presented. [I] had to rely on my senses to judge another person by the “illusions” the media had created. As [I] got older and wiser, [I] started to question my interpretation on media and how it “dragged” me with its “reflections”. [I] unchained myself to discover the “light” outside of the cave and get a “clearer vision” on all the knowledge [I] needed to make a sensible decision. …show more content…
Through his ideas and archetypal use of shadows, Plato suggests that the humans are viewing images through someone else’s perspective and that it will be the only reality they will know. He uses shadows to represent the “illusions of reality” because the prisoners have been their “from their childhood” and the only true objects they know are