Plato's Republic - The Three Great Analogies The Allegory of the Cave, like most things in philosophy, can be interpreted in many different ways. ... The main point of the Allegory of the Cave is to give an example of the way that we all live our lives. ... I seem to think there is another meaning to the Allegory of the Cave. ... The Outside of the cave, the true reality, then is a symbol of heaven. ... He expresses this theory with three approaches: his allegory of The Cave, his metaphor of the Divided Line and the Simile of the Sun. ...

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Book VII of Plato's The Republic (which, for ease, will be referred to as The Cave) is an allegory about society and the restraints that are placed on members as well as education or the lack there of and the consequences. An allegory is the telling of a story using symbols to tell about something the author wants to reveal. ... Plato goes on to propose what might happen if one of these men was to break free and climb his way out of the cave into the real world. ... Plato tells us that the man would most surely want to go back into the cave, but only to persuade others to join him in t...

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