With the Divided Line as a backdrop, Socrates presents the Allegory of the Cave as a metaphor that presents a person's travels from ignorance to wisdom. ... Imagine prisoners living in a cave. They have been chained facing the rear wall of the cave since childhood. ... Behind the prisoners on a higher level of the cave floor a fire burns. ... The Allegory of the Cave is an education process for the prisoner. ...
Furthermore, Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" gives us understanding about human's progress and their responsibility to share and convey the enlightenment to those who are still in the darkness. ... Human knowledge is just accumulated from what people observe in a dark cave. ... According to "Allegory of the Cave", Plato described that "the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato). ... He has to bring the "true light" to the cave where people are still blind in the darkness even he has a little hope to change people...
The allegory of the cave illustrates the difference between the materialistic world and the intelligible world. ... Another aspect of the cave is the idea that if man escapes the cave and sees the light he is no longer able to see the shadows that he used to see. ... The cave also symbolizes the idea that memorization of the shadows produces intelligence. ...
