Allegory Of The Cave Analysis

The Allegory of the Cave is a story from Plato with a message, this story teaches how people are compelled to do new activities. The prisoners are shackled to walls and their look on the world changes once they are able to go out and experience the light. Very few prisoners are set free and the one’s that are seeing new experiences and other people see negative effects from it. A person’s perspective changes upon the items that they can see and what they can’t. In the cave, the prisoners are shackled to the walls and have not been let up from the shackles in years since they were kids. If a prisoner was freed for a reason, whether it was because they broke free or were set free, the first decision they decided to make was to go outside and see what they have never seen before. The prisoners would be compelled to look at the light and would experience pain and blindness because they are only accustomed to darkness with a little light from a fire behind them. These prisoner’s have been in the cage since childhood, that’s ten plus years of shadows and darkness and when given the chance they’ll explore new areas. By looking at the light when they go outside, their eyes will need to adjust to the bright lights and it will be painful. When they decide to go back inside the cave, they will also experience pain and blindness until their eyes readjust to the dark. …show more content…
When we wake up in the morning and turn on the lights or enter a bright room from a dark room, we all lose vision. We become blinded by the lights because we are accustomed to the dark and it hurts our eyes. Now these prisoners are immersed in the dark for much longer so their eyes are not used to light at all, it would hurt much more and much longer. A couple hours in the dark is different than years in the dark. People now also experience blindness when going from a bright room into a dark one, until their eyes can adjust all they see is