Alligory of the Cave Questions

1. The Allegory of the Cave is, according to Socrates,  is the tarp that holds people in the dark. It is the unknown presence that keeps the people in their little ruts and niches that also represses the desire to experience your own life. It's a lie, but it is also your truth. It is what you know and cannot escape, or simply don't want to escape.

2. There were sharp juxtaposition between ideas. Government which is used to promote free will (or supposed too) is used to be shackles holding society together. In a few words; dark, but not, not comforting.

3. The allegory implies a sort of bias, or tunneling of vision in the course of education, so you are biased to one belief or another, unless of course, the subject cannot be subjected to bias. Ex: mathematics.

4. Shackles and bindings imply the prisoners are held in a terrible way. They are viewed as animals and more than that, are incapable of their own functions. This develops dependance on something of comfort. Like the information you see as true.

5. Comforts we establish on our own are what shackle our mind. We try to fit in, and we build walls to ideas or perspectives we may not have been opposed too with an open mind.

6.The free prisoner was incredulous and effervescent at the discovery of the something after wall. The prisoners on the other hand were un-accepting and did not want to confide to anything beyond what they knew.

7. The allegory shows confusion can occur in both the presence of something new, or something revealing its true nature despite what you expected of it from the past.

8. The prisoners are free as soon as they accept they are being mentally detained. In the words Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! by Bob Marley,  this shows that they are mentally as well as physically released when they accept their confines.

9. Defiantly. Perception is the middle man of  reality and thought. What happens between an action and what people see is what makes it illogical to trust an eye witness in an investigation. Emotions and bias convoluted the truth.

10. One could be the metaphor that the truth an individual brings is scorned from a group, no matter what truth it may hold. Another can be that an we are all slaves to our own weaknesses.