Plato's The Allegory Of The Cave

Plato’s main idea in “The Allegory of the Cave”, was that people see reality as the visible world and nothing more. It begins with the supposition that if a group of prisoners were chained to the wall of a cave, and are able to see what was in front of them; with a fire behind them, they would only be capable of seeing the shadows of the images as they passed by the fire. The prisoners would begin to identify the shadows as their reality. However, if one of the prisoners were to escape from the cave, he would be incapable of seeing anything at first, because the light would be too bright. As time passed, his eyes would gradually begin to focus, he would begin to see images more clearly. If the freed prisoner was to go back to the cave, he would find that it would be impossible to abide back to his old world. He would not be able to recognize the shadows in the cave,
His chain would be his phobia of going out into the water, caused by the trauma of his ‘father’ being ‘killed’ in a boating accident. That represented the chains, that stopped him from exploring the world. Later he broke this chain and he became the free prisoner. The townspeople, were mere shadows of the real world, he did not question it, until he the girl he fell in love with the, whom represent the real objects in Plato’s allegory; started telling him that his reality was fake, which caused Truman to question his reality. He was no longer contempt with what they fed him to believe, he pushed himself to find the real truth, which incorporate My Ishmael’s belief that to be able to find the real truth, Truman had to first realize the nature of his captivity to be able to break free from his chains. In doing so, he overcame his fear of the water, Peck’s concept can also be seen here, revising our maps of reality requires a lot of effort and can be very