The cave analogy gives the reader insight on the importance of understanding life and never settling …show more content…
Socrates had experienced the effects of this analogy first hand. First, one needs to take into consideration that the democrats of his time represented the ones controlling the shadows on the walls. This of course made the prisoners content with this reality. Likewise, anyone who questioned this reality or truth, would be considered a disruptive nuisance. They would then face the possibility of execution, just as Socrates. Therefore, it is obvious that they both did not care for the injustice of democracy, which is the ignorant ruling the unaware.
In conclusion, one can see that the importance of true unfiltered knowledge can lead to freedom from the manacles of ignorance. This analogy can be applied to the modern world in how the masses our blissfully unaware of the truths of what and how their political and religious leaders run the world. Democracy is not as perfect as some would want one to think and this analogy shows Socrates and Plato’s true feelings on the matter. Plato’s cave analogy is an insightful philosophical breakthrough that is just as important today as it was in ancient