The Allegory of the cave by Plato is a piece of literature that will really get you to think about society and our own personal lives. The above picture shows how the cave looked. The caves main purpose is to instruct their captives on what the world is, but to the captives this information is the real world to them they know no other life so they take the shadows to be what these things are. The captors are suppose to be philosophers of a sort doing like this ongoing experiment on these people. I saw these captors to be like a modern day government telling its people what they should know and what they should believe. Another insight that I had was that these captors were a lot of tlak but very little action they talked about all of these options about what they can do but they never really implemented what they talked about. It seems that most modern day governments do about this same sort of thing talking about various things but very rarely taking action to what they have talked about.
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Another comparison is sitting in a movie theater. Your drawing is a perfect depiction of a projector showing images on a screen, and people are tied down to their chairs in a false reality.
Thumbs up to the drawing.
I always had one problem with the Allegory...
What prevents the prisoners from looking from side to side and seeing their fellow inmates. I would think it would be possible to draw a conclusion that the shadows are not true forms being that the fellow inmates are not shadows themselves...
It was just a thought!
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