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Allegory

The excerpt “The Allegory of the Cave” is from Plato’s book called The Republic. In the allegory, prisoners are chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. All they can see is the wall of the cave. Behind them burns a fire. Between the fire and the prisoners is a pathway, along which puppeteers can walk. The puppeteers, who are behind the prisoners, hold up puppets that cast shadows on the wall. The prisoners are unable to see these puppets, the real objects, which pass behind them. What the prisoners see and hear are shadows and echoes cast by objects that they do not see. Such prisoners would mistake appearance for reality. They would think the things they see on the wall, the shadows, were real. They would know nothing of the real causes of the shadows.
Our society is just like the prisoners in the cave. When we look around at the government all we see is a shadow on the wall. We don’t’ know what exactly they do, we just know there are a government and a......


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