Through out the entire allegory he causes for the reader / viewer to undergo two different realities and at the end making them question things they did not think before. The purpose of the allegory is to ponder in philosophical thought. He encourages the quest for higher knowledge but also shows the consequences in achieving that knowledge. He personalizes it so that the reader/viewer relates to the different forms of reality. Plato puts the reader/viewer as the person who knows nothing at all, to the person who is experiencing a discovery between one world to another, and lastly, to a situation where both people from different worlds cannot agree because of the two separate perceptions. This is displayed when it is suggested that prisoner returns to the cave to share his wisdom of the world later to be discouraged by his fellow prisoners. This occurring because the prisoners no longer agree with the freed one due to the lack of knowledge they have yet
Through out the entire allegory he causes for the reader / viewer to undergo two different realities and at the end making them question things they did not think before. The purpose of the allegory is to ponder in philosophical thought. He encourages the quest for higher knowledge but also shows the consequences in achieving that knowledge. He personalizes it so that the reader/viewer relates to the different forms of reality. Plato puts the reader/viewer as the person who knows nothing at all, to the person who is experiencing a discovery between one world to another, and lastly, to a situation where both people from different worlds cannot agree because of the two separate perceptions. This is displayed when it is suggested that prisoner returns to the cave to share his wisdom of the world later to be discouraged by his fellow prisoners. This occurring because the prisoners no longer agree with the freed one due to the lack of knowledge they have yet