5/16/2023 0 Comments Allegory of the cave summary![]() ![]() Having trouble adjusting to the changes that he must go through to be able to see down in the darkness. He is amazed by the reality he just learned of the upper world. Plato uses ethos in the allegory by explaining what will happen when the prisoner goes back into the cave. I find that this is an effective way to maintain pathos throughout the passage. By constantly, having us imagine what the man would go through he leaves no room to question. From the man having to get up, to the man struggling to look at the light, from the man taking time to adjust to the sun. He describes every little detail of what would happen to the man. Plato continues using pathos by having us imagine, the pain the prisoner will have to go through to get out of the cave. He states:Īt first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in the former state he had seen the shadows (pg 868). Plato uses the tool of imaginary to push us to feel sympathetic to the prisoner that is freed. In the allegory, one man is free to go into the upper world. He uses this to his advantage to make it seem like we are the ones resisting the true information. ![]() Plato primarily uses pathos to make his topic sympathetic. The use of the dialogue keeps the audience intrigued to find what the purpose of the lesson is, which is not revealed right away. The conversation method is effective because Socrates presents the allegory as an instructor teaching a lesson to a student. This entire passage is a dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon (who is Plato’s brother). For example:īehold! human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den here they have been from childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette player have in front of them, over which they show the puppets Glaucon replies, I see(pg 867). In the allegory, Plato presents this story in which he covers all angles and possible objections. One of the primary strengths in the allegory is the use of logic. He usually uses Socrates as a character who is speaking to a student or friend about abstract issues, asking questions that require simple answers (pg 867). Plato’s most famous work is written in dialogue form. After the unjustly death of Socrates, Plato withdrew himself from the public and focused on his writing and an academy he founded. During the time that this took place, it was difficult for politics in Athens. He was sentenced to death because he was accused of corrupting the youth of Athens (pg 865). Socrates was a well known philosopher who was killed unjustly. Plato was an educated man who was strongly influenced by his mentor Socrates. This allegory is centuries old, but is one of Plato’s most famous work. ![]() Human beings will be prisoned in their perception of what they feel reality is. It describes the limitations that human beings bring on to themselves. In the allegory, the prisoner that leaves the case is like the philosopher who can perceive reality in a different way than others can. The others think he has lost his mind and threatened to kill him. He goes back down into the cave and tells the others. Eventually, one man is freed and goes up into the upper world and is able to see reality through his own eyes. The humans that are chained name what they think the shadows are. This causes the humans that are chained to see shadows. There are other humans passing by with vessels, statues, and figures of animals. In between the fire and human there is a low wall. ![]() They are only able to see what is in front of them. The humans are chained from their necks and legs. In a short summary, the allegory is about a cave with human beings living in it since they were infants. “A Rhetorical Analysis on the Allegory of the Cave” ![]()
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