allegory of the cave
Allegory of the Cave Plato, the most creative and influential of Socrates’ disciples wrote the “Allegory of the Cave” which symbolizes person’s struggle to reach understanding and enlightenment . The allegory is a description of a cave in an unknown location. Plato is saying that all humans are prisoners and that the physical world is our cave. In the back of the cave there is a fire , merely there to shed light on the forms, casting shadows into the cave.