Blog 2 Summary of "Allegory of the Cave"

    The passage "The Allegory of the Cave" speaks about liberation.The main character Socrates talks about prisoners in a cave since childhood to his friend Glaucon. He explains the experiences that they have endured their whole lives. Their necks cant move as they are chained,so they only see what is in front of them which is only shadows. Then Socrates tries to make Glaucon envision a prisoner escaping from the cave and seeing reality. If there was an instructor guiding him to name things as they pass the prisoner would feel perplexed. Then after seeing what reality has to offer he is captured and returned to the cave where shadows are the only reality,and his inmates would feel as if he had gone crazy for leaving the cave because he would fall into a deep sorrow after being free and having returned.