Once the prisoner has taken on this new situation, it is taken out of the cavern, appreciating a new second external reality (trees, forests, rivers, seas, sky, day, night and the sun, among many other things. Still on the subject, the story tells what would have happened if one of these prisoners to be released and brought into the light of the fireplace, contemplating, in this way, a new reality that is to say what are the shadows. The knowledge that is transmitted into society on Plato's myth of the cavern is that "it is not always true everything we see." However, this was not the message that Plato wanted to leave us with… Only in such a case, Plato´s play would have been understood as myth rather than an allegory. And it is at this stage of Plato´s work, where most people terminate interpreting the myth of Plato's cave because if you had read this book fully, the message that would have been transmitted by word of mouth would have been very different one. The prisoners cannot see any of what is happening behind them, they are only able to see the shadows cast upon the cave wall in front of them.ĭue to the circumstances and the cave itself, the shadows are the only reality for the prisoners because they have never seen anything else from birth they do not realize that what they see are shadows of objects in front of a fire, much less that these objects are inspired by real things outside the cave.
The people walk behind the wall so their bodies do not cast shadows for the prisoners to see, but the objects they carry do. Between the fire and the low wall, unchained people walk carrying objects or puppets of men and other living things. All arranged in a linear manner and in that exact order. Behind the prisoners there is a wall and just behind the Wall there is a fire. These prisoners are chained so that they are fixed, forcing them to gaze at the wall in front of them and not look around at the cave, each other, or themselves. The second part narrates the liberation stage, to conclude with the last part that narrates the return to the cavern and the final outcome.įrom an early age, we have listened to the essence of "The Myth of Plato's cave", and what we have been told is no more than a graphic representation of a cave where people have been imprisoned from birth. The first part is where it describes the scenario of the cavern, the wall, the fireplace and the prisoners. This easy and brief book to read has three parts.
Plato's myth of the cavern, also known as the allegory of the cave, it is not a philosophical myth, but rather a pedagogical allegory, and it is precisely there where the true message of Plato´s allegory is.
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