... . As a result, one has to question their vision every time a brand new idea is presented in front of their eyes. Similarly, in the essay "Allegory of the Cave," Greek philosopher Plato's thoughts correlate with Thoreau but in a more pessimistic way as he portrays humans are deprived of their freedom to turn their heads and what they are seeing is limited ... the earliest analogies about humans' incapability to see things in depth. In the dialogue of "Allegory of the Cave", Plato asks his readers to imagine a group of prisoners, who were kept in a cave down the Earth. These cavemen have b...

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