Analysis of "Allegory of a Cave"

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In Plato’s “Allegory of a Cave” Socrates and Glaucon discuss an insightful circumstance of men in a cave that are chained to a wall with the entrance of the cave to their backs. While conversing over this topic Socrates relates truth/reality with justice. In doing so he uses the men in the cave as the prime example in the allegory of truth and reality; the men do not know that there is an outside world. The men base their beliefs on the shadows that are portrayed on the wall in front of them. To them, these mere shadows are their own truths to the outside world as they have not seen anything from the exterior. Since they have not seen the outside, their only ideal of what is out there is based upon these shadows, because nothing else has been implemented into their psyche to change this belief. However the shadows are not what is outside, it is a small portrayal of what the real figures look like. The men cannot know what the real figure looks like, nor knowing it ever exists, because they cannot see the actual creature. That is where he relates it to justice. Without knowing and seeing real justice, how do we know what real justice is?- but again, once one sees real justice how are we sure that that is the real thing? This is circular reasoning to an answer that cannot be obtained; however that what philosophy is. In “The Broken Chain”, written by M.F.K. Fisher, Fisher describes her child life of being punished by spankings. She alters between calling her father “Father” and “Rex”. Rex means king Latin. When calling her father “Father” she is referencing to him as a fatherly figure; even though she was spanked by him, she does not dislike him for it. Fisher dislikes her father and calls him “Rex” when he lashes out in anger and goes to his primal instincts; rather than being the stern nurturer he is when Fisher calls him “Father”. The father is not bipolar or
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