Sometimes we go into an illusion that we sometimes find difficult to believe when we see reality. In Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" represents an extended metaphor that involves contrasting how we perceive and believe what reality is. Plato explains this allegory; the fundamental beliefs that everything we perceive are imperfect reflections of the ultimate forms, which represent truth and reality. Plato, in “Allegory of the Cave,” establishes a cave in which prisoners are chained and forced to look at the front wall of the cave. The allegory of the cave can be seen as a devastating critique of our daily lives, slaves to superficialities, to the shadows rather than the real world. The multi-faceted meaning that can be perceived from the “cave” can be seen in the beginning with the presence of our chained prisoners in the darkness of said cave. The prisoners are forced to remain on the ground and unable to turn their heads to see what is happening behind them (Plato, 317). Behind the prisoners, under the protection of the bulwark, are the puppeteers who project shadows on the wall in which the prisoners perceive reality (Plato, 317). The passage is actually not told from the prisoners' point of view, but rather a dialogue between Socrates and his brother Plato, Glaucon. Although the allegory consists of the conversational dialogues between Glaucon and Socrates, the two are not mutually exclusive and therefore will not be treated as such. As Socrates describes the cave and the prisoners' situation, he communicates the fact that the prisoners would naturally be mistaken. as to what reality is. Because we, as students, know that the puppeteers behind them use wood and... middle of paper ......administration and government. We are not aware that we live with illusions, superficial knowledge and false and contradictory ideals. Our lives are dominated by the shadow plays on our cave walls created by newspaper headlines, by radio broadcasts, by the endlessly moving shadows on our cave walls. television screen, by the echo of the voices of opinion makers. A real world example is when a problem occurs, like outside Yankee Stadium, many people were shot and hospitalized. People around the square were trying to spread the news via radio, television and newspapers. When nothing was found, people claimed that the owner of Yankee Stadium was covering up what happened so as not to show it. This is what Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” was trying to do. If you have no proof of the things or problems you discover, never try to talk about them because they will never believe in you..