Summary: "The allegory of the cave"

           "The allegory of the cave" is a parable where Socrates asked Glavcon to imagine a cave inhabited by prisoners who have been imprisoned since childhood. The prisoners are force to face a wall. Behind the prisoners runs a walkway at a certain height, people walk carrying all sorts of things. Behind the walkway is fire which create different shadows. The prisoners get to see only the shadow and hear the noises the people and animals make. One day a prisoner is free. The prisoner gets to see the world out side of the cave and is nothing like he imagined. Amazed with what he saw, he comes back to the cave to tell his friends what he saw, but his friends unable to recognize him, only hear noises and see shadows.