Allegory of the Cave
In this excerpt, Socrates explains his logic in an example of a cave full of a number of slaves chained to the walls. One of the individuals are lucky enough to be able to see a light through a hole in the wall. He sees this and tries to tell the others about his great discovery. The other prisoners deny him and call him mad.
I think this represents the enlightened and the unenlightened like it was explained before. That one lucky prisoner to see the light. He was the one that was enlightened and the others were left in the dark. The dark cave represents the world, where as the prisoners represent every day people. And the majority of those prisoners/people are unenlightened. This shows that people need to be enlightened. If not, they will be left in the dark for the rest of their life. Not knowing what real life is.
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