Today in class we read the story of the cave and what its real meaning is compared to what the story says. The story is about someone that is in shackles at the bottom of a cave with a fire behind him and puppets casting shadows on the wall. The puppets sound like the people that are operating them, but they don't know that. While they are in the cave someone comes down into the cave to rescue one of them. When they get up into the light, he can’t see anything because he has never been out of the cave and needed to adjust his eyes before he could see anything. He decides to back into the cave because of how bright it is. The story is designed to show that if we get all our information from one source throughout life, we won’t know what actual freedom is. The cave represents how people can believe in certain things that are false their whole life and will still support it. The person that rescues them is knowledge and the path to knowledge.This story helps to show how people can believe false things and not want to change with knowledge or gain knowledge.
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