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Mind Map by ellen.harrison, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ellen.harrison
almost 11 years ago
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The Allegory of
the Cave
- 1. Starts with a cave, underground, with a
passageway towards the light outside
- 2. Inside the cave there are people, kept
prisoner since childhood. Chained together
facing the back of the cave.
- 3. The people are chained in such a way that they cannot
move, only look forward. Above and behind them is a
large fire, only source of light
- 4. There is a walkway, in front of which is a low wall,
people walking along walkway holding various objects
- Statues
- Silhouettes of animals, people
and plants
- Statues
- 5. Some of the people talk to one another,
voices echoed and distorted. The objects are
flickering shadows on the wall
- All that the prisoners see and hear, are indistinct
voices and shadows , this is all they have ever seen and
heard and all they talk about
- All that the prisoners see and hear, are indistinct
voices and shadows , this is all they have ever seen and
heard and all they talk about
- 6. One day, prisoner is freed from chains,
compelled to stand, turn around and look
towards the fire, brightness of fire is so much
that he cannot see anything else
- When eyes adjust, finds it difficult to believe that the
things behind him are more real than the shadows and
want to go back to where he was
- When eyes adjust, finds it difficult to believe that the
things behind him are more real than the shadows and
want to go back to where he was
- 7. Pushed further by something
(someone). Dragged up steep,
rough slope up to entrance of
cave
- 8. Compelled to look at brightness outside -
painful. eyes become accustomed to
brightness. First he looks at shadows of the
objects, then their reflections in water and
then the objects themselves
- 9. Realises that the sun gives light to everything in the world.
then thinks about existence left behind in cave, now feels
compelled to go back to help them
- 10. Going back in to cave, prisoner finds it difficult to see his surroundings,
because of darkness, he cant see the shadows as well as he could
before
- 11. Stands in front of prisoners, tries to talk to them about reality of
world he has seen outside the cave. prisoners laugh at him
because he can no longer see the shadows as clearly. They say
that if someone tries to free them they will kill him
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