"The allegory of Plato's cave" What is found in this cave, are prisoners chained so that they are facing a wall. Behind them, a great fire the philosopher Heraclitus beloved that fire was the primary form of reality. Between the prisoners and the fire a puppet show is happening. The prisoners see the shadows on the walls and this is their reality. A person freed from his chains and looking towards the light will be blinded and not even able to see what realities he did know before. Back in the cave, prisoners give honor to those among themselves who noticed the passing shadows first and their happenings. This prisoner, who now see the lights and once respected those who remarked on shadows, would have lost much of that respect. Finally he returns
