The allegory of the cave represents how humans can often distort reality due to the beliefs we create in our imagination to explain the world around us. We must free ourselves from being tricked into believing things without adequately seeking evidence to support or counter our beliefs by coming out of the cave to witness the real world with our own eyes. Plato attempts to portray man's lifestyle, as well as their entire belief system, as a style of slavery to perceptions. It can be very difficult to free our mind from everything we originally believed and establish a new way of thinking. However, like the prisoner who suffers from the bright light when he comes out of the cave for the first time, we will get used to the light and will be grateful to whoever took him out of the “dark” cave and enters the world with the “light”. This light is used to illustrate enlightenment or the transition from a state of ignorance to a state of understanding. Plato emphasizes that education is a process of learning spiritual knowledge, but that everyone has the inherited power of learning in their soul. On the other hand, the enlightenment process can vary drastically from person to person. However, Plato expresses the idea that in an ideal world there will be equality between people on many levels. For example, it is believed that all knowledge should be known by every citizen, so that everyone has the same opportunities to seek a fulfilling life with knowledge of their surroundings. Once the prisoners have seen the light outside the cave, they have the responsibility to return to the depths of the dark cave and attempt to enlighten the ignorant prisoners who still choose to live in the shadows, because they refuse to listen to the information. that difference… in the middle of the paper…, causing us not to look for more information, but simply take things at face value. Light and even shadows serve to show us that the things we see are not always as they appear to us, especially when we cannot see their origin. For example, we can analyze things in our reality, but it is still impossible to demonstrate what truly makes our reality possible. To further prove this point, Plato manipulates the idea of ​​reflections. Our reality could easily be affected in the same way that the simple-minded prisoners of the cave saw the reflection of the sun on the cave wall. They would believe that the sun was exactly the way they saw it reflected off the wall instead of the actual shape and size of the sun, but Plato's cave makes us explore the possibility that perhaps our reality is simply a reflection or shadow of something . taller.