The Allegory of the Cave – also known as the Analogy of the Cave, Plato's Cave, or the Parable of the Cave – is an allegory used by the Greek philosopherPlato in his work The Republic to illustrate "our nature in its education and want of education" (514a). It is written as a fictional dialogue between Plato's teacherSocrates and Plato's brother Glaucon at the beginning of Book VII (chapter IX in Robin Waterfield's translation) (514a–520a). The Allegory of the Cave is presented after the metaphor of the sun (507b–509c) and the analogy of the divided line (509d–513e). Allegories are summarized in the viewpoint of dialectic at the end of Book VII and VIII (531d-534e).
In the dialogue, Socrates describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Socrates, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.
The task was given to my group, we have to related the real world with the the Plato's analogy. we have chosen Malaysian political system. In our opinion,
The prisoners is symbolise The Malaysian's citizen
The Chains is symbolize The Laws that our country have
The Fire is symbolize The Politicians in Malaysia country
The Shadows and The Image is symbolize their manifesto before election day, they say promise to people.
The Puppet Players is symbolize The wealthy people and the person who are standing behind them are politicians.
The Chains is symbolize The Laws that our country have
The Fire is symbolize The Politicians in Malaysia country
The Shadows and The Image is symbolize their manifesto before election day, they say promise to people.
The Puppet Players is symbolize The wealthy people and the person who are standing behind them are politicians.
The Old Man is symbolize knowledge
the reason why the prisoners hurt his eyes when he was first liberate it is because the prisoners cannot accept the truth thing what happens in their life.
the prisoners still insist that the images which he has seen before is real that the statues because, they cannot accept the truth thing and of course the truth thing is very hurtful...
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