“The Allegory of the Cave” is a recording from the book “The Republic” by Plato, philosopher Greek, which give us a lesson about how the human knowledge behaves after been exposed to a new philosophy. The parable is original from a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon, professor and brother of Plato. Socrates presents to his student an imaginary world were people have being living in a cave. There they have their hands and head chained, and all the have is a blank wall in front of them which occasionally give them a reflection of other people and objects, which they have never seen. The sounds and the shadow of these, is all the know in their entire live.
Then one of them is released and can see the world out of the cave for the very first time. later he trays to go back and to share his experience of the world with the people who have stayed in the darkness, but they can’t understand him. To them, he just look like one of the other shadow reflected on the wall.
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