Assignment 2

The Allegory of the Cave

I believe 'Allegory of the Cave' to be a good story. It is about three men who are chained in a cave. The only thing in their view is moving shadows on the wall. They are out of reach with reality and the real world and they don't even know it.
The man than gets released and is able to move around. He is now able to see inside the whole cave and not just what the other prisoners are made to see. He notices the fire burning and the puppets moving on the other side of the cave and begins to understand the meaning of shadows, seeing how the puppets reflect off the fire than reflect on the wall to make the dark silhouette images.
After seeing these images he began to doubt what he was used to all of his life. Then he started to explore and wanted to know what was outside of this cave, wondering if there was more they hid from him in his life. "And he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away and take refuge in the object of vision which he can see" - when stepping out of the cave, he has to be in view of the sun, it is all around him...from being used to so much darkness his eyes could not adjest and they began to burn and I would presume he crouched over and clenched his eyes to take away such brightness he wasn't used to.
As time went by he became accustomed to his surroundings and how much he had missed by being locked inside the cave, chained to not even be able to move his head to see what was around him. Being that he was given the experience to wander around and see all these things outside of his old reality, he had wanted to go tell his fellow prisoners about such things.
When he goes to enter the cave, he is not used to the darkness from being in the light of the sun. His friends than think he lost his sight from his eyes not being able to adjust. Trying to explain to his friends of the 'upper world' that what they are in 'the prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun' so that the cave is the world and that the fire behind them is like the sun and what I would like to add is that the puppets are like the people in the world, but they couldn't comprehend what he was speaking of.

'Whether true or false, my opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effect' - that we are so accustomed to how we are and how we've grown up, that we are afraid and can't comprehend change. We as humans for the most part think INSIDE the box, when for us to grow as people & become more knowledgeable about the world around us we must think OUTSIDE of the box. We have to do what we have to and more to succeed and progress in things. If you think outside of the box and always push yourself to do more than what you originally plan. You might just get to full understand what everything is around you and not be naive to the occurrences that happen.