Plato's Allegory of the Cave

1.     .      According to Socrates, the allegory of the cave represents the human condition of perception. How we as beings believe that our reality is the only reality, and when someone tries to tell us otherwise, when cannot understand them.
   2.       The three key elements of imagery of the allegory of the cave are one chains, because they represent how our thoughts bind us, two the deep dark cave, and the blinding light of the real world
   3.       The Allegory suggests that learning or enlightment is difficult, in the story when the prisoner first sees the light of the world it painfully blinding, which symbolizes the pain of change
   4.       Both the shackles and the cave have dank dark connotations which illicit to the audience that the prisoners lives are sad and meek.
   5.       In the present society, others perceptions and condescension shackle our minds from creating or being original.
   6.       The freed prisoner has been allowed to be among the enlightened but when he returns to tell his friends of the world he just shows up as another amorphous shadow on the wall.
   7.       Lack of clarity can happen when a person it taught to think and stay in the box which inevitably chains him in the preverbal cave.
   8.       In the stories the prisoner is freed by another soul which elicits that one can only be enlightened by those who are enlightened.
   9.       The line between perception and reality is a fine one. On one hand more times than not ones perception of realty is a variation and therefore not the whole reality, hence the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover.” Although in rare cases some people can perceive exactly what is happening and all the facets of the current reality.
   10.   If Socrates is wrong in  his assumption then;
   a.       Reality is not a general term but a personal one
   b.      We cannot make and sort of society because every human lives in a different reality and therefore cannot be governed