The sun stands for the Form of Goodness itself. If we took the prisoner back into the Cave, into his old world, he would not be able to function well in his old world of shadows.įor the allegory, the Cave corresponds to the realm of belief the World of Day corresponds to the realm of knowledge. The sun makes this new perception possible.
PLATOS ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE FULL
But he will gradually see the stars and the moon he will then be able to see shadows in the daylight thrown by the sun then he will see objects in the full light of day. When we drag him out of the Cave and into the World of Day, the sun will blind him. He will want to return to his old perceptions of the shadows as reality.
When he is told that the people and things he now perceives are more real than the shadows, he will not believe it. If we unchain one of the prisoners and make him turn around, he would be frightened, pained by new physical movement, dazzled by the fire, unable at first to see. The prisoners perceive the shadows and echoes as reality. The prisoners perceive only shadows of the people and things passing on the walkway the prisoners hear echoes of the talk coming from the shadows. A fire is burning behind the prisoners between the fire and the arrested prisoners, there is a walkway where people walk and talk and carry objects. They can see only the wall of the Cave in front of them. There are prisoners in the Cave who have been chained there since their childhood they are chained to the ground and chained by their heads. Socrates is here still trying to clarify the four levels of intellect, the two levels of belief, and the two levels of knowledge.įor this allegory, we are to imagine an underground Cave, whose entrance/exit leads upward to daylight.
Having presented us with the Analogy of the Sun and the Analogy of the Line, Socrates now in the conversation introduces the Allegory of the Cave.
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