Myth Of The Cave Analysis

In the story “Myth of the Cave” we are told that there are three prisoners in a cave tied to some rocks, their arms and legs are bound and their head is tied so they cannot look at the burning cave entrance behind them. All of the prisoners have been detained since birth and have never seen the real world; they did not even know what existed. Everyday people outside of captives cave walk along the pathway casting shadows on the wall that is in-front of the prisoners. They are able to see figures of the people walking and images of what they are holding. They truly did believe the shadows were real. Eventually, there is a prisoner that does manage to escape and leaves the cave. He is in disbelief that what has been outside this cave all this time certainly does exist. At first he does not understand what is happening, however eventually he becomes used
When the prisoners are looking at what everyone else in the outside world is doing by seeing their shadows, it reminds me of what it would be like to live in a less fortunate country. Those people have to live their lives in a similar way suffering and barely surviving. They live a life of sameness where every day they go through same routines. For example, to just get water they have to travel far distances just to get a proper necessity. This scenario also relates to me personally. Whenever there is a death in the family we all tend to just try to stay away from everything and not live our lives to find meaning. I know that I always want to limit myself to seeing anyone or even going out in public. We try to divert any people that try to help us just because we don’t want to talk to them. This is similar to the story where the former prisoner comes back to talk to the others about how beautiful the outside world is and they did not want to