Change is an adjustment and if you do not change you will be left behind. In the story, it gives the setting, then we get to read how the prisoners view the world and then how one of the prisoners was set free and this shows how he will begin learning new things from what he originally knew before. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” it shows that people should accept change because they never know what can happen once they know the whole truth and through the use of point of view, imagery, and symbolism.
To begin with, we can see the point of view changes and transitions throughout the story. In the story Plato states “Later, however, he would be able to view the things themselves [the beings, instead of the dim reflections]. But within the …show more content…
The quote “Now if once again, along with those who had remained shackled there, the freed person had to engage in the business of asserting and maintaining opinions about the shadows...And would they not let him know that he had gone up but only in order to come back down into the cave with his eyes ruined -- and thus it certainly does not pay to go up” (Sheehan 5). The symbolism used in the text can be seen to mean more than just the literal meanings. The cave symbolizes the sheltered life they are living in and how the fire is the projected views they want them to see. The fire is manufactured to form their beliefs and views of the world. The chains represent the beliefs that they have and how they will not believe anything other than what they want to see. The sun represents the truth in the text the prisoner who is freed steps out of the cave and is revealed this whole other world. When the freed prisoner tries to return to the cave to share the knowledge he has gained from outside the cave he is judged for not being able to see the shadows as he once did. The other prisoners then refused to accept the change they were hearing from the prisoner who had just been in their position. All in all the symbolism shows how each character experiences the world they live in and brings forth ideas nobody thought of
To begin with, we can see the point of view changes and transitions throughout the story. In the story Plato states “Later, however, he would be able to view the things themselves [the beings, instead of the dim reflections]. But within the …show more content…
The quote “Now if once again, along with those who had remained shackled there, the freed person had to engage in the business of asserting and maintaining opinions about the shadows...And would they not let him know that he had gone up but only in order to come back down into the cave with his eyes ruined -- and thus it certainly does not pay to go up” (Sheehan 5). The symbolism used in the text can be seen to mean more than just the literal meanings. The cave symbolizes the sheltered life they are living in and how the fire is the projected views they want them to see. The fire is manufactured to form their beliefs and views of the world. The chains represent the beliefs that they have and how they will not believe anything other than what they want to see. The sun represents the truth in the text the prisoner who is freed steps out of the cave and is revealed this whole other world. When the freed prisoner tries to return to the cave to share the knowledge he has gained from outside the cave he is judged for not being able to see the shadows as he once did. The other prisoners then refused to accept the change they were hearing from the prisoner who had just been in their position. All in all the symbolism shows how each character experiences the world they live in and brings forth ideas nobody thought of