... see and hear for reality and truth. This is the basic premise for Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which prisoners sit in a cave, chained down, watching images cast on the wall in front of them. They accept these views as reality and they are unable to grasp their overall situation: the cave and images are a deception, a mere shadow show orchestrated ... of his own beliefs just as the men were prisoners of the cave. Oedipus" reluctance to believe the prophet Teiresias and not consider the words spoken to be the truth had caused Oedipus to be a victim of his own fate. In "Allegory of the ...

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