Prisoner of war

above them is a fire that casts shadows onto the cave wall that the prisoners are facing. Between the prisoners and the fire is a raised walkway that allows unnamed people to walk through, although the walkway has a wall to obscure the shadows of the people themselves to be seen by the prisoners. The people carry various objects above their heads, meaning these objects then get cast onto the cave wall opposite from the prisoners. Socrates claims that to these men, these shadows are all that they…

Inside the story of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” we find prisoners held down by shackles inside a dark den with an only source of light that is fire behind them, as a result, that all they can see are shadows, until one day one prisoner breaks free and escape from the cavern and sees “reality”, but momentarily he gets temporary blindness because he wasn't adapted to light by the cause that all he saw in his life were shadows and darkness, after a while he explores and sees the sun he admires…

face in front of them the walkway whereby shadows are being casts by the fire light behind them.All the knew and saw are the shadows of objects that are portray on the wall and were naming them according to the what they see.Suddenly one of the prisoners got release. While outside it was hard for him to adapt to the reality such as the sunlight which got to his eyes and blinded him because he has been used to darkness and also everything…

The Cave is a story about a man who had spent his life chained to a cave only seeing shadows from a fire behind him. One day, he is released and goes to see the wonders of his new world. Eventually, he returns back to the cave to tell the other prisoners about the wonders of the world however they did not recognize his distorted voice or his shadowed body. It is from there that Plato begins his commentary of what the allegory was trying to say. Many topics were discussed in his commentary…

concept dates back to 380 BC, when Plato wrote the short story, “Allegory of the Cave”, in his magnum opus, The Republic. The allegory depicts humankind as prisoners, bound so they can only see what is directly in front of them: shadows cast by various objects passing behind them. However, as they have only ever been exposed to the shadows, the prisoners believe they are the true forms of each object. When one breaks free and discovers the real world, he returns to the cave to enlighten the…

education process. To begin the allegory, Plato proposed that a group of prisoners were chained and unable to move because of these chains. They could only gaze upon one thing, the shadows which were projected onto the wall by a fire set above and behind them. These shadows were of various different items that were being carried by people behind a wall that enabled only the shadows of the items to be projected. Since the prisoner cannot turn his head due to the chains, he was forced to watch…

human awareness. In the short story a group of prisoners have been confined in a cavern ever since birth with no knowledge of the outside world. They are chained facing a wall unable to turn their heads. While a fire behind them gives off a faint light. Sometimes people pass by carrying figures of animals and other objects that cast shadows on the wall. The prisoners believe that the shadows are real and they begin to classify them. Suddenly one prisoner is unchained and brought outside for the…

seeing these images and shadows in front of them, but they are not aware that the real images are behind them. Plato had the idea, what if one of these prisoners were freed and saw the light, what would happen then? The freed person would be blinded to the light and no longer believe that the shadows they once were seeing were real. The prisoners don’t…

big question, “What is knowledge?” Plato’s way of demonstrating knowledge is his most famous examples of the Allegory of the Cave and The Divided Line, which uses the idea of sense perception. Socrates/Plato set the scenario in which there are prisoners who've been kept since childhood in a cave. Being chained, immobile, and facing a wall, there is a raised walkway and behind it there was a lit fire. A person of the walkway had objects that could be identified if seen, even in a shadow…

At the beginning he described the perspective of the prisoners and how we, in a way, are those prisoners. He also describes the environment of the prisoners; he stated that the prisoners are chained inside a cave. Here the “cave” symbolizes how we all live in a world that we consider reality. Ever since we are able to comprehend the world around us, we hold some perspective of that reality that may be false. Once the prisoner was freed and was allowed to look at the light behind him, Socrates…