The Prisoner

their own "cave". The people that are in Plato's' cave, the prisoners, have always been there. They all have their legs and necks chained and cannot move. They cannot turn their necks or bodies to look around them. The cave is very dark and there is a fire in the distance. There is a wall in front of them and men are frequently carrying tools and vessels and various shaped objects with them. This creates different shaped shadows for the prisoners to view. All that…

The allegory of a cave is analogous to a world of visible reality in a cave, and a world of reality that can be seen by intelligence outside a cave. The prisoners who are locked in a cave that cannot even look inside the cave in the cave are confused by the rational judgment, the slave of the desire not to be able to make a good judgment, the shadow that blurs the rational judgment, The person who can come…

people manage to see the light through a life changing event. Gandhi’s life changing event is similar to both the protagonist Siddhartha, in Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and the released prisoners in The Allegory of the Cave by Plato. Therefore Mahatma Gandhi’s life parallels with that of Siddhartha and the prisoners: he was born in a life of luxury and “darkness” yet realized the true pain and, in the process, becomes one with the world. At the beginning, both Gandhi and Siddhartha are blinded…

In “Allegory of The Cave,” philosopher Plato explains to his student, Glaucon, that there are prisoners in a den tied up and have never been able to turn their bodies nor their heads to see what is behind them: a blazing fire. The prisoners can only see a wall and the shadows casted from the objects that pass along front of the fire (583). The shadows are the only truth the prisoners know since they have never been exposed to anything outside the cave. Plato further explains saying “To them...…

that is unfathomable and quite hard to contemplate in regards to human life and the existence as a whole. Plato’s take on the world clearly envisions the world as a singular cave, one that’s dark and enclosed, and human beings as though they are prisoners in this cave. The human beings are depicted to be trapped within the walls of the cave without a possibility of ever escaping and all their experiences are depicted as shadows on the walls of this cave. It can be argued that, the human…

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…

traded in his daily rations to a Kopa to get Yanek a new job outside the camp (Gratz, 73). Uncle Moshe understood that Yanek was young, had no parents, and that he was his only hope to for getting through this nightmare. It wasn’t just about the prisoners having hope for themselves but also helping others. When Yanek was in the death march, he saw a boy that couldn’t stay on both feet anymore due to the cold that was making him weak. He knew that if the Kopa’s saw the boy they would shoot him…

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…

pass on his craziness to them. Finally, Socrates states, “And if they can get hold of this person who takes it in hand to free them from their chains and to lead them up, and if they could kill him, will they not actually kill him” (Sheehan 5)? The prisoners, like anyone else in the world, were afraid of the freed man because he was preaching about something that they had never experienced. He wanted them to go out of the cave with him and see it for themselves, which would frighten anyone. The…

A scenario given is that “prisoners are released…[and] turns his neck around and walks towards the light” (Plato, 360 AD, p.1), which represents that one prisoner will realize the unknown truth and knowledge. This finding of light will cause for him to "suffer sharp pains…will not be able to see the realities of which his former state he seen…