Watch the video on Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave”.

Respond in writing (300 words analysis) to the following questions after watching the video.

1) What does each allegorical figure (the Cave, the Sun, the prisoners, the shadows, and so on) represent?
2)What does this allegory mean? How does it relate to Plato’s theory of idealism? 3)How does Plato say people can get can out of the cave and know the sun?