Analysis Of Plato's The Allegory Of The Cave

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In Plato’s writing, The Allegory of the Cave, he supplied his readers a conversational piece, between his very own edifier, Socrates, and another student by the name of, Glaucon. The piece was predicated on the human nature of people that once broken down you can visually perceive his full allegorical meaning as well as his literal, and when discovering these construals it sheds a whole new enlightenment on the rudimentary human nature of people in the world. One very particular area that hit home for me was and I quote:
“But, whether true or false, my opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort; and, when seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful