Book VII of Plato's The Republic (which, for ease, will be referred to as The Cave) is an allegory about society and the restraints that are placed on members as well as education or the lack there of and the consequences. An allegory is the telling of a story using symbols to tell about something the author wants to reveal. ... Plato goes on to propose what might happen if one of these men was to break free and climb his way out of the cave into the real world. ... Plato tells us that the man would most surely want to go back into the cave, but only to persuade others to join him in t...

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