Explain Plato s use of the metaphor of shadows in his allegory of the cave
Plato uses metaphors to describe the shadows in his allegory of the cave. In the story there are prisoners who have never seen the real world and the only world they know is the one of shadows, that are cast upon the wall of the cave. The prisoners are chained to the cave by their limbs and also their necks so they cannot see around them. ... What Plato is trying to say by using the metaphor of shadows is, that even if the prisoners were free of their chains, as one of them becomes, what they would see would be very strange to them.