Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is a story of a man coming from a world of darkness into a world of enlightenment. The main theme of the story is to “illustrate what it's like to be a philosopher”. Plato wished to educate his audience, which is thought to be his pupils from the Academy or anyone whom was interested in learning from him. The Allegory of the Cave begin with a group of people all chained to the wall of a cave, preventing them from viewing anything but shadows on the wall before them created by figures passing in front of a large fire far behind the prisoners. The shadows on the cave wall created the only world the prisoners were ever introduced to, therefore “the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images”. At
