The Allegory of the Cave depicts a dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon. Socrates starts by illustrating in this metaphor how our nature is enlightened or unenlightened. During their dialogue, Socrates presents to Glaucon a group of people that had been chained down from their necks and legs in a cave since their childhood. Socrates goes on explaining how these chains prevent the group of people from turning their heads. There is a burning fire behind them and they can only see shadows before them. The prisoners can hear the echo of people talking and objects passing by. In this metaphor, one of the prisoners is able to scape free from the cave and experience the world outside the cave. This prisoner would come back to the cave to explain
