Blog 5: The Allegory of the Cave

       In the story "The Allegory of the Cave", Plato writes about two men, Socrates and Glaucon.  Socrates tells Glaucon a story about people that have been chained down in caves.  The people inside the cave has never seen the outside world, the only thing they have seen the shadows on the rocks.  The shadows are caused by the little bit of lit and the fire inside the cave.  No one knows what is outside the cave, so Socrates tells Glaucon that the people inside the cave should be brought outside to the light.   Socrates explains his curiosity about the people ideas of what is outside of the cave and what they would do if they saw the outside world.  He wonders if the people would be terrified about what is outside or would they be brace enough to walk around and live.  Then, a prisoner escapes from the cave and he slowly makes his way out but then he is blinded by the light.  After he starts to see the world for what it is he realizes that the story that he knows is wrong.  He then heads back to the cave to tell everyone what he saw.  In the end,  the people in the cave will not listen to him because they do not want to believe anything else.  They are blinded by the truth and they will only believe what they know.