🔒 Prisoners are confined in a cave and can only see shadows and echoes on the wall.
🔥 A fire behind the prisoners casts shadows of objects passing on a raised walkway.
🌍 The prisoners have never known any other world except for the shadows and echoes.
👤 The released prisoner experiences the outside world for the first time and wants to share his discoveries.
🔍 The prisoners cannot recognize their friend after he is released, as his appearance and voice have changed.
🕳️ Plato's Allegory of the Cave is about people stuck in a cave who cannot understand the outside world.
🌎 The world outside the cave is just as real as the world inside the cave.