Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

The more I learn about reality, the less I understand it. What is reality? The dictionary defines reality as the quality or state of being actual or true. While there are certain facts that are generally accepted by most people as being true, so much about life and the universe is open to interpretation. I have read a several articles during this class and I can now define it in my way. When I woke up this morning, I found the world largely as I left it. I was still who I’m; the outside world had not been rearranged. History was unchanged and the future remained unknown. In other words, I woke up to reality. In the three articles and the film that I have read and watched in this class, I take a tour of my understanding of the world around
In the dialogue, Socrates asks Glaucon to imagine a cave, in which some people are kept. These people have been in the cave since their childhood, and each of them is held and chained, so they can't move their legs and necks. They forced to look at a wall in front of them, and behind them there is a fire. Also, there are another people behind them, which they can't see them. These people are carrying objects. The people, whose necks are chained, could only see these flickering images on the wall, so they presumed the images to be real, but they don't know that the shadow of what is actually real and the images were not real. So far, I think these people had no choice to distinguish between the real and the images because they had accustomed to imagine that. Since there was no one got out of the cave, I don't blame them, but after one of them brought into the open I think his job to go back to the carve and tell them the truth. At the beginning it was really hard to the one, who saw the fire then the sun, to continue his mission and see all the truth about the sun, images and himself. In addition, this “Allegory,” works for everyone who has come with a new idea of life that could guide people to the peace. I mean here the prophets; the God sent them to their people to guide them to the right way but always they don't find it easy. Even though people know that they are wrong and the prophets are right, they always fight the truth “If any one tried to lose another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the offender, and they would put him to death.” (Plato, 659). So we need a “ladder”; once we know where we are heading and we have the ladder of a workable plan firmly in place. We need a paragon guide to lead perfect life, and we just need to take the first