SUMMARY
THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE
From Book VII of The Republic by Plato
Written 360 B.C.E; translated by Benjamin Jowett
Allegory of the cave is a fictional dialogue between Plato's teacher, Socrates, and his brother,
Glaucon. As stated in the story human beings were held captive in an underground cave from their childhood, legs and neck chain which prevented them from turning their heads. Above and behind them fire was lit at a safe distance. Echo and shadows were seen but could not be distinguished even as their fellow prisoner.
This allegory is the prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun, and the journey upwards to be ascent of the soul into the intellectual world according to the author's belief of God, an enlightenment to the prisoners.
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