Plato created an allegory with the use of figurative language; including metaphor, symbolism, and imagery. Throughout the passage he uses the figurative language to add dept and more meaning to it. One of his main symbols was the cave which represented the world in which close minded people live. He used one main character to represent the stages of life that a person goes through. His purpose was to make education a priority and to have the educated people go back and help those who are uneducated.
The figurative language that Plato used helped shape the plot. He used metaphors as a key way to explain certain things. One of the main metaphors, as well as symbol, that he used was the cave which represented the world of the uneducated. Another metaphor was the people in the cave which represent groups of people who exist in the world we live in. For example, the person that left the cave represents the people who search for an education and wander off to find it. Everything in the passage was a symbol of how this world is; they are all a representation of this world. The intellectual freedom that they lacked represents the lack of knowledge that people have.
The purpose that I got out of this passage was that education is key. Plato wanted those who were uneducated to get educated and then to go back to the “cave” and educate the rest. But in the passage when the person goes back and tries to educate the others he is killed. That demonstrated that people are afraid of learning new things. They did not agree with what he was saying and saw him as a threat, the only solution they saw was to get rid of him.
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