Question

7. Plato tells a story of prisoners, chained in a cave, never seeing the real world, just a puppet show in shadows. When one of the prisoners gets out of the cave, he is shocked and scared by the real world. He wants to go back into the cave. What message was Plato trying to convey with this Allegory of the Cave? What was his point?

Answer 1

He is explaining how the world is dangerous. When the prisoner goes out, he is shocked and scared. he author is also trying to make us understand that the world is not what we think it is.