This is the basic premise for Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which prisoners sit in a cave, chained down, watching images cast on the wall in front of them. ... The truth for Oedipus being that he is a prisoner of his own beliefs just as the men were prisoners of the cave. ... In "Allegory of the Cave" Plato alludes to a direct representation of the human condition of typical behaviors in society. The allegory metaphorically describes several key elements of the human condition of containing pertinent ideas about false perceptions being perceived instead of the intuition of reason. ......

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In essence, the allegory of the cave is equivalent to the conditioning used in a state that would be exposed to censorship. The idea of the prisoner who escapes from the cave is comparable to an individual who begins to question their previously held beliefs. ... This is an immediate link to the failing system of a censored state as it symbolizes being captured in a cave. ...

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