Maria Camacho
English 20
Cerritos College
Post #1

The Allegory of the Cave

This is the first time I have read this story and I read it twice to understand it better. I think that Socrates and Glaucon are conversating what most of us have conversated in life at one point of what is real or what truth really is. I believe that everyone in life has had the same conversation that Socrates and Glaucon are having. Sometimes we see what others want us to see and we do not see what we want to see. Socrates says, " And if they were able to converse with one snother, would they not suppose that they were naming what was actually before them?" Some people conversate about other things but they do not really talk about of what is actually in front of them. They only get to see what is in front of them. For example, they one see the fire, the wall, and the chains that havethem hooked to each other. We as human beings only see what is also in front and we do not look back because if it is the truth then sometimes we do not even want to know it. The prisoner that got to escape got to see the truth, the outside of the cave he was in. He finally saw with his own eyes that the outside is something better that he saw himself than seeing what they had made him to see. I do not pity the people that are still locked up in their caves but hopefully one day they come out and see the truth and that it does not hurt. The truth will just change our lives for the better and not for the worst.