Fisher King and Plato's Allegory of the Cave

There are numerous underlying and similar platonic allegories in “The Fisher King.” The most obvious is a scenario relating human lives to Plato’s Cave. Jack and Parry live their lives ignorant to the world outside of their caves. It is the union of these two characters that triggers a mutual enlightenment.

Parry’s understanding of the world, as a commoner knows it, is brutally skewed by a tragedy in his life. He falls into a form of insanity, frequently seeing truly non-existent objects that his mind creates to overcome this tragedy. The platonic chains that hold him down in

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