The Allegory of the Cave
In the article “The Allegory of the Cave,” the philosopher, Socrates, explains an allegory to one of his followers, Glaucon, questions his perception of human nature. In the story, he assumes that a group of prisoners were chained since birth. Their abilities of moving were limited except identifying people’s shadows who passed behind them. One day, a prisoner was released, he enabled to touch and experience the real world out of the cave which he had never known what it looked like. With the time passed, he discovered the realities in the human life and wanted to share those visions to other prisoners. However, they couldn’t recognize him because of his different shape of shadow. Therefore, he would never go back to his origin.
As the author states that “Either in public or private life, we must have our eyes fixed,” I found the right attitude in analyzing difficulties when we uncounted them. In my opinion of his saying, Socrates actually tells us that we should have positive attitudes and confidences in dealing with troubles. In another word, we should be optimism. A wise person once said that having confidence in self is the best power to overcome the troubles. I strongly agree with this opinion though my personal experience. I once have traveled the seacoast of South China by riding bike with my best friends, the total distances of the trip is 200 miles. Despite the feelings that other people had about our crazy plan, we had already headed on the way. Finally, we made our dream come true by staying with confidence and trusting ourselves. If we hadn’t had positive attitude when we encountered difficulties, we wouldn’t have succeed ourselves. There is, in order to have our eyes fixed before dealing with difficulties, we should stay positive, stay optimistic.
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