Plato

Plato
To reflect upon this reading, it has a lot to do with today’s society. Whether it’s through media or religions, we now today strive to live better. As an example such as Christians, they are wanted to be accepted to heaven. They want to live in a good environment after death. Christians fear the fact that they will be sent to hell rather than the peaceful heaven. Everyday people live with sin, sin sometime just come their way.
It is interesting to me how it explains in the story how if a man tried to struggle to get free it would just suffer more and it was a sin. It also explains how these drawing or paintings on the walls spoke to them and how you can see the shadow. The beliefs from these people through their religion allow them to suffer. In so many different aspects, if the prisoners were to look at the light they would become blind and not able to see they would look away. Therefore, to comfort themselves in the suffering pain in the cave, they imagine their own story with closed eyes. Here it quotes “I think that he would suffer than anything than entertain the false notions and live in this miserable manner.” These prisoners were actually never to see or experience the realities of the real world.

John Her