Plato´s Allegory

Comparison Between Plato´s Allegory and Today´s Time Can you imagine the relationship between old works of philosophers and today’s world? Could you imagine how it would be if you discovered that the world you think you live in is not exactly what you think? Or the things you see are not exactly what you see? The Allegory of the Cave by Plato represents an extended metaphor; a figure of speech in which a phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance. Plato uses the metaphor, a figure of speech in which a phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, to contrast the way in which we perceive and believe the reality. What Plato wants to tell us with his allegory is that people live in an ignorance in which simply they don’t want to leave. This is a problem that people have had since the beginning of time until today. People just live their life as a simply routine without seeing that there are more things that they can do or know. We can compare the Allegory of the cave by Plato with modern time by presenting the issues on Plato´s allegory, which basically is the ignorance in what people live, and the issues of today´s people. In his allegory, the main issue that Plato represents with the cave is the ignorance in which people live. He presents that people mistake what they see and hear for reality and truth. This is the basic premise for Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which prisoners sit in a cave watching images cast on the wall in front of them. They accept these views as reality and they are unable to understand their overall situation: the cave and images are a ruse for them by unseen men. At some point, a prisoner is set free and is forced to see the situation inside the cave. At first, he does not want to give up the security of his familiar reality; the person has to be dragged past the fire and up the entranceway. When individuals