blog 5

    In Plato's " The Allegor of the Cave " Socrates tells a story to his student Glaucon to explain to him that is not easy to change our life with the other life If we have been living there for a long time.In the first paragraph Socrates tells Glaucon about prisoners whose legs and necks chained and live in a den for a long time. And they are not able to move or look around. Here Socrates states people are not able to see other things around. They have certain life that they can live. However Scrotes says that there is a fire behind them and some shadows on the wall in front of them that are reflected by fire. Here I believe that Scrotes try to show us religions and what people believe in. Because prisoners can not see them. They only imagine and give names for those things.
   Afterward Socrates tells imagine if a prisoner is free and he try to learn the truth about shadows on the wall. He sees sun and other life out of the cave but at last he goes back to den. Here, Scrotes try to explain us that its not easy to change our life or our belief right away. Because people have been living in this system for a long time. They have their own belief and life. Even if they try to change It, It is going to take time or we are going to go back our den where we are belong.