Education and ignorance are daily experiences which accumulate to each individual, which make a person’s personality. “allegory of the cave” is a metaphor for the lives everyone lives and how our minds would function in that situation. Each person evolves an individual by the things he learns and gets educated about. Ignorance is also something a person evolves over time, and the only way to get rid of ignorance is education. Education takes time, thus ignorance is something which we should encounter frequently.

In the cave, prisoners see shadows of different statues and because they have not seen anything else in their life, they believe that the things they see is the realest and truest things around. Of course, after they see the statues they understand that the statues are actually the real thing, and after they walk out of the cave, they realize that there are other things which are “truer” and “realer”. Taking a step back we see that in order to know what true value is we need education, therefore the idea of “true value” is a concept of relativism. The people maneuvering the statues know that the statues are more “real” then the shadows the prisoners see. At the same time, the prisoners who are supposedly oblivious to what is going on behind them are experiencing true ignorance by believing that the shadows are the “real” thing.

In the beginning i thought about the allegory of the cave as a game, in order to understand the theory.The initial level is seeing the shadows and once you move on to seeing the statues and so forth you move up in the levels of the game. The way to win the game is to be able to explore as much as possible and come out with the most analysis once you get out of the cave and see the sun, grass, houses and etc’.