Allegory of the Cave

The Allegory of Truth The general human can easily fall victim of greed, power, ignorance and hate. I have discovered, from the readings in this class, this situation has existed for many centuries. Allegory is defined as “the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence”(www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary). The article The Allegory of the Cave is a perfect example of what happens when human …

…discovering that the shadows were not objects, just merely reflections of the objects. “In every way, then, such prisoners would recognize as reality nothing but the shadows of those artificial objects”(Plato, 229). Human beings are very difficult creatures to understand. Scientists have spent many lifetimes dedicated to the study of these masterly crafted animals. With the many different types of personalities and responses to stimuli, I believe the answers my be many more lifetimes ahead