Examples Of Allegory Of The Cave

The Allegory of the cave says that there is quite a different between appearances and reality, and I think that this statement could not be truer. When I hear this I think of the “perfect” family. A stay at home mom, a working dad, a daughter on the honor roll, and a son on the football team. They all go to church on Sunday morning and are well involved in their community. Their family appears to be so perfect to everyone around them, but that’s just because no one knows their realities.
See the reality is that the dad is a drunk that takes his anger out on the mom, and the mom is a drug addict, and their straight a daughter sells herself to men on the sly, and no one knows that the star football player thinks that he is worthless and cries himself to sleep at night. So yeah I guess you could say that not everything is what it appears to be. I think it is impossible to ever truly know and understand someone, so it is never okay to judge someone based on how they appear to you. Maybe that nerdy girl that you just called ugly is ten times prettier than that popular girl when she’s at home and takes off her makeup. I sometimes feel like our bodies are just masks that hide our souls, and that our bodies are our appearances and our souls and who we are as people are the reality.
There are so many things that we can do to change our appearances, it is ridiculous. Like for instance get plastic surgery or liposuction. Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner both changed themselves a lot but in reality or I guess before they got permanent plastic surgery they did not look anything like what they do now. Tran’s genders are also a prime example, some appear to be girls but are actually boys. It depends on how you look at it, I think that Tran’s genders are born with the wrong body