In his Allegory of the Cave, Plato alludes to prisoners who have spent their lives tied up in a cave. People walk across the cave and make shadow puppets in the flickering light of the fire located behind the shackled prisoners. One of the prisoners is then given the chance to leave the cave. Although he is initially blinded by the sun, he eventually gets used to it and is able to see that the shadows he once thought were reality are actually not. When he returns to the cave to tell the other prisoners about what he has experienced, they do not believe him. The shadows created by the puppeteers are reality to the prisoners because that is all they have ever experienced. Because they are ignorant about the fire and puppeteers making shadow figures,
