Summary: The Allegory Of The Cave By Plato

Summary: In The Allegory of The Cave, Plato indicates that the truth, the realistic, and the justice are certainly hard to find, but people should not give up the pursuit through combining the fancy and realistic, and they should not abandon this awareness. Plato uses a metaphor, prisoners who assume that the objects’ shadows from the projection of the fire in the den is the truth and the realistic because they do not know how real objects look like in the outside world. However, when a prisoner breaks their shackles to look for real objects from the outside world, he will understand that the shadows in the den are fancy and not the true or the real. In addition, Plato argues that if a person suddenly coming back to the den from understanding the real objects will not find the truth and justice correctly like human’s eyes can not suddenly accept the light from the dark or the dark from the light, so people have to have an accustomed procession to find the real
Also, it is hard to understand and accept the truth because we were educated with our culture when we were broth; for example, we were educated how to identify the right, and what is the wrong in formal senses. As Plato states that the people who live in the den assume that the shadows from the projection of the fire in the den is the truth and the realistic. In this way, I suppose that the people in the den are educated to unknow anything, however, they were protected in the den without any harm from the outside world. I can suppose that the den symbolizes the environment of the country. The government educates what they think about the right, the justice and the truth to people. Consequently, Plato argues that people should have duty to know about the truth and they understand the real truth and justice through looking up to the upper world, and the