In book VII of The Republic, Plato puts into words the life of another great philosopher of the time, Socrates. ... 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. ...
On a less grand scale, the book is certainly a representative of 1920s society, a time when the values and morals of the eighteenth and nineteenth century were declining in favor of the materialism and narcissistic attitudes following the First World War. ... (Bruccoli vii) Gatsby's wealth is all wrong, it is precisely why he lives on the West Egg rather than the East Egg. ... He did not know it was already behind him somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night." ...
-(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human life was so important to Plato as education. ... He expresses in Republic that the whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, & to do so by directing it to the right objects. ... However education in the Republic is exclusively meant for those who are to become the rulers of the ideal state. ...
