The story of Plato's “Allegory of the Cave” The story of the Allegory of the Cave written by the greek ancient greek philosopher Plato[->0] was more or less a theory involving the way human beings percieve things in life. The theory is platos main idea that wisdom or knowledge obtained through the senses like, eyes, smell or sound can not be more than personal opinion and that the only way to obtain true knowledge, people need to obtain it through rational and intellectual reasoning. In this story, the philosopher Plato differentiates between people who make the simple mistake sensory knowledge for the absolute truth and the people who really do see the truth using rational thought. I really believe that the story can be explained in parts 4 parts, the cave, the shadows, the escape and return, and the game . These parts explain the story of humanities perceptions. In Platos main theory, he explains the dark cave represents people or who strongly believe that wisdom comes from what we see , feel ,and hear in the world . The cave shows that believers of this absolute knowledge are trapped in a cave of misleading wealth of information. Now these prisoners have been here since birth, and have never seen day light or the opening of the cave. The prisoners were bound to rocks, their arms and legs were tied and their head is tied still so that they would not be able to look at anything but the stonewall in front of them witch represents a pritive movie screen. This obviously to me is representing the prisoners accepting the fact that there in no other things in life to live for just because they have not scene anything but shadows on a wall. Some people in life to some point can say they live in a cave and see no way out, for example, dead end jobs. As the story progresses, Misterious people outside the cave walk along this pathway , where light from a fire ,