Plato's myth of the cave is about a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Plato's Socrates, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.One day, one of the prisoners had been freed by an old man who sympathizes with his condition in the cave. After he was escaped, he begin to stand and turn around to look the source of the light. At first, his eyes feel hurts because in the cave, he only seen the shadows which is projected on the wall for years and years not the light. So, it is something new for him. The old man said to him that what he had seen before it is just his illusion not reality. The old man point out that the statues and not the images are real but he is stubborn and insists that the shadows are much true than the statues.
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