Plato

I have read “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato many times now, but it is one piece of literature that I never get tired of reading. I love the set up being in dialogue it almost makes it easier to follow then it would if it were in a continues one speaker set up. The dialogue also allows the things being disgusted to be questions and analyzed further which really helps with grasping this complex concept. I love the scene that Plato lays out for us, the men chained up never seeing the real would only those that are being played in front of them by the players, and they're only see shadows. That whole concept of never seeing anything real and with substance just sounds terrible and not a way to live a life, the enlightenment that one man receives, the real world, just seems like what everyone should have. I understand what Plato is getting at the being enlightened part, but I don't think that others shouldn't get to experience the world and the truth. Plato said himself “the upper world where they desire to dwell; which desire of theirs is very natural”, it is natural we're supposed to be exposed to all that there is to offer outside “holes” and “caves”.
Kylee w.