PLATO's MYTH OF THE CAVE....

Assalamualaikum..

Plato’s Myth of the cave???what is this??Have you ever heard about "Plato's Myth of the cave"?honestly, i’m never heard about it before.  Finally,, I got a chance to know and  learn about it when my lecturer, Sir Kamaraziz distribute a paper about the Plato's Myth of the cave..

So, what is “ Plato's Myth of the cave" all about??Plato’s Myth of the cave is an argument that we can't be sure that we know about the reality which this story illustrates Plato's idealism.  Plato’s idealism said that the objects that  we see, hear and touch are shadows of the real things. The reason is human beings don't have a full sense of a real and complete life because of the world itself or we can say because of the environment.

Besides, Plato describes to a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall where the people watch shadows that was  projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to create the shadows. 

Here is my task for Plato's Myth of the Cave..

Choose a setting/reality that is similar to this story.
 ~ a broken family

These objects symbolizes:
 ~ the prisoners: the children
 ~the chains:rules that being set by the family

 ~the fire: other members in family
 ~the shadows and the images: belief and norms of family
 ~the puppet players: parents which  as the source of the family
 ~the old man: teacher

In the context which you have selected, why do you think that the prisoner still insist that the images which he has seen before are much more real than statues?
~ The children is only believe towards the puppet players which that the children believing that their parents is the best and love them very much and not believe others thing which is reality that happened in the family.