Allegory Of The Cave Passage Analysis

Words: 434
Pages: 2

(T) To face new experiences and feel freedom, one must go outside of their comfort zone. (E) In the passage Allegory of the Cave prisoners are kept in an underground den, locked up in this den is the only world the prisoners have known. In the passage a prisoner has been released and experiences the outside world for the first time. “Behold! Human beings in an underground den. Here they have been from childhood… Now, let us see what would naturally happen if one of these prisoners were released… He will see the stars and the moon and the glorious spangled heavens.¨ (Allegory of the Cave Passage). (X) Clearly, the outside world is a lot different then the den which was the only place the prisoner knew. When the prisoner went out of the den,