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Plato's Cave Allegory Plato's Allegory of the Cave is a very thoughtful account that proves to be a metaphor for enlightenment. It begins with Plato describing a scene where prisoners are in an underground cave. This represents the darkness and ignorance of mankind and the reference to an underground chamber tells the reader that it is as far away from the sun as possible. The men are chained facing a wall and the only thing they can see is the images of shadows of objects being cast by a fire behind them. They assume the shadows are real which is mans reluctance to look further and accepting what we see and are told. The shadows are likened to things we are brought up to believe and are imperfect copies of imperfect copies according to Plato and is idea of the realm of the forms. The fire in the cave...

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