Allegory Essay Samples and Topic Ideas

allegory to make a note of the schematics to this theory of forms and the dualistic approach in Book VI of the Republic where Glaucon asks Socrates about the nature of "The Good" and in turn he gives the explanation of the Cave, to be explained later. However, after explaining the allegory to Glaucon, Socrates talks about the dividing line in which doesn't necessarily speak of what The Good is but gives an account on how to reach it. To give a brief account on the cave Plato's Socrates tells Glaucon to imagine men shackled up to stone in a cave, their extremities are chained as well as their head always facing a wall in which shadows are portrayed in the passing of gentlemen on an elevated path that...