blog #5

The Allegory of the Cave is a dialogue between Socrates who is philosopher and the Glaucon who is student and his friend.  Socrates is trying to convince Glaucon that for people who is in the cave the world is not like a shadow and it is totally different.  Socrates told to Glaucon to imagine that now is the reality and what you were before was a lie or an illusion but Glaucon had a different opinion about reality.  People who lives in the cave, they refuse reality.  At the end Glaucon accepted the reality and he feels sorry for the other people who live in the cave and he wants to help them.  Also there is allegory about Glaucon, if you see knowledge and you want let them know about the reality, maybe is going to cost you. 

 The main idea of the Allegory of the Cave is when someone lives in the cave or in the prison and he/she doesn’t has an idea about life or how it is outside, he/she refuses to believe what life is and they think that everything is a shadow.  If someone lives in the cave it is difficult to accept the reality because they have no idea what outside life is.