Summary of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”

           In Plato's "Allegoy of the Cave" Socrates, explains to Glauon  (Plato's younge follower), the complex idea of enlightenment in a simple and understandable story. Using the idea of prisoners who has been chained in a cave and had never seen the light of day, he then constructs a senario where one is set free. At first he couldent see the sun so he started slow by looking at shodows, reflections, objects, then he is able to look at the moon and stars. Finaly the sun,  experiencing the world outside the den, with the new perception of the world trys to explain what was seen on the outside.

                                                             "My Place in the Cave"