Plato’s story The Allegory Of The Cave suggests, that there are many shackles holding back the human mind. For examples, fear, money, weakness and failure. “And when he got into the sunlight, wouldn’t his eyes be filled with the glare, and wouldn’t he thus be unable to see any of the things that are now revealed to him as the unhidden?” Plato suggests fear in this quote. Even though his eyes would be filled with darkness he would not be able to finally see the chances that have always been hidden to him due to the cave. He does not want to go out to the real world and experience it at first because he was filled with fear. He had no idea what to expect. On the other hand, in today’s world the human mind will fear things also. People are
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The prisoners may feel like failures, just sitting down there their whole life and never making a name for themselves and trying to be something one day. They are afraid of the unknown, maybe they are nervous they aren’t good enough to come out of the cave. They just want to stay where they know everybody and don’t have to worry about a thing. People now days are afraid of failure also. Sometimes people hold themselves back because they are afraid to fail. They just want to feel good about themselves and that they have it all together. Truthfully though, people need to take chances, to make it further in life. People in today’s world and the prisoners will never know what they are missing out on until they come out of their comfort zone and try new experiences. Failure is always in the back of everyone’s mind though, which holds everybody back from their goals. The cave relates back to the modern day world in many ways, like the money, weakness, failure and fear. There are many more, those were just a few. People and the prisoners need to try to avoid setbacks and “shackles” we all need to take more risks and try new experiences. What I have learned from the allegory is, people just need to go with it and try harder than anyone else, even if someone fails, it is just a learning experience for their next try. Do not hold back and do not let other people hold back the goals that could change a
The prisoners may feel like failures, just sitting down there their whole life and never making a name for themselves and trying to be something one day. They are afraid of the unknown, maybe they are nervous they aren’t good enough to come out of the cave. They just want to stay where they know everybody and don’t have to worry about a thing. People now days are afraid of failure also. Sometimes people hold themselves back because they are afraid to fail. They just want to feel good about themselves and that they have it all together. Truthfully though, people need to take chances, to make it further in life. People in today’s world and the prisoners will never know what they are missing out on until they come out of their comfort zone and try new experiences. Failure is always in the back of everyone’s mind though, which holds everybody back from their goals. The cave relates back to the modern day world in many ways, like the money, weakness, failure and fear. There are many more, those were just a few. People and the prisoners need to try to avoid setbacks and “shackles” we all need to take more risks and try new experiences. What I have learned from the allegory is, people just need to go with it and try harder than anyone else, even if someone fails, it is just a learning experience for their next try. Do not hold back and do not let other people hold back the goals that could change a