... thought of their readers. Plato was a student of Socrates and though the writing of "Allegory of the Cave" is all his own the basis for his ideas came from none other than his own teacher. The teacher you see is one half of the great element in Plato's epiphany. Socrates is in ... particular work, "Plato described symbolically the predicament in which mankind finds itself and proposes a way of salvation" (Plato 1). Throughout the conversation a system of ideas develops that are meant to teach the reader or readers about themselves, their world and how it should be viewed rather than a sim...

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