In the Allegory of the Cave there’s prisoners, who are chained up from head to toe. Therefore, they cannot see the world beyond on the cave. Above the staircase to the outside world. There is a fire. Which reflects the objects of the walkway behind the prisoners, but in front of the fire. The prisoners are led to believe that they are living in “the real world” since they had been in the cave since childhood. In the allegory of the cave Plato writes about forms. The world is made up of reflections of more perfect and ideal forms. The prisoners believed that the “material” cave is all there is to the world. Then one of the prisoner is forcefully set free. When the one prisoner was released Socrates said, someone will tell him that what
