Discussion Of Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

Plato truly believed that philosophy was needed for each of us to live and die well. One of the most forceful stories he told and one of the most know allegories today is the Allegory of the Cave.
He starts the story by telling Glaucon to envision a cave. Along the entire width of the cave is an entrance. There are people that have lived in this cavern for their entire lives with their heads and legs chained so they cannot move or look anywhere other than directly in front of them. In the very back behind and above them there is a fire blazing that provides light creating shadows. The only thing they see are their shadows casted on the wall in front of them. In front of this fire is a raised walkway like a bridge. On this way there is a short wall like the screen in which puppet players have in front of them hiding them and only showing the puppets. There are men that pass behind the wall
It is better to live with traumatic truths then to live an unknowing lie. I believe that Plato is very wise and I do agree that knowledge is always better than ignorance. I believe that knowledge is power and ignorance is bliss. Without knowledge one cannot get ahead in life. We were born to learn and thrive educationally. Staying ignorant is almost like going against human nature. It is often what hurts us the most that teaches us the greatest lessons. In the book Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury 105 says “Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning, we’ve cried. They are never alone that are accompanied by thoughts, we’ve shouted to ourselves. ‘Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.’” I interpret this as saying if we always have truth, we will never truly be alone. With knowledge and knowing comes great comfort. I believe the last quote basically says that knowledge feeds us as people and it’s what we survive off