Allegory Of The Cave

Zoë
Ms. Roof
A.P. Lit. & Comp.
10 September 2010
Hidden Truths
Platos Allegory of the countermine is an extended metaphor for human existence. It always relays the mess geezerhood that integrity must be experienced rather than told. This idea corresponds with the modernistic world and society that we all live in today.
In our society we are taught at a young age to believe certain things and think a certain way. in that respect are various opportunities for us to expand and explore our knowledge, perfectly here they have been from childhood, chained by the leg and in addition the neck, so they cannot move and nevertheless see what is in movement of them.(Plato, page 49). Society portrays an image of how life should be and what is even up and wrong, and those who attempt to expand those ideas are frowned upon. For example, teacher John Scopes was incriminate of violating the Butler Act in 1925, which made any statement of evolution unlawful. He was put on a recollective trial and was fined for teaching an un-biblical theory. Society frowned upon his attempt to expand the minds of children, because it was divergent from what the believed, and it was not the truth.
When the pris unmatchedrs were chained, and could see nothing but what was in front of them, they failed to look at each other or themselves, and explore the thought of anything else existing.



They had a fear of change and only believed what they could see. Prisoners so confined would have seen nothing of themselves or of one another. (Page 50) therefore, when one of the prisoners escaped and saw the truth, the others refuse to believe his lies. They had created such an idea in their minds that nothing else could be true of their entire world and the facts they had known since birth. This corresponds to our society because we are trained from a very young age to put ourselves first. We are ofttimes swayed to believing in what our parents have taught us is correct. If we were not so confined to believing what we have been taught, but instead explored divers(prenominal) opinions...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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