380 BCE by Plato 427-347 BCE
they are related by being color blind and by seeing shadows
I'd say the easiest way to understand it as an allegory is to go ahead and make the direct correlations between it and Plato's Allegory of the Cave. In both cases we have a prisoner who becomes unchained and ascends out of the darkness and into the light. In both cases the light represents the truth. Both freed persons also feel an obligation to go back and educate those who remain in the darkness.
The golden kite, the silver wind is an allegory based on the cold war. An allegory is a story written to teach or describe a lesson. In ancient china , this story setting.
it's an allegory
prose allegory is to represent something in another manner
Plato wrote The Allegory of the Cave.
The Crucible and The Wizard of Oz are allegories. An allegory represents ideas or principles in any piece of written liturature. Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"
Allegory of the cave
chicken in a box
chicken in a box
When the man is removed from the cave he is brought into the light. That is enlightenment.
The fire in the cave represents the illusions that keep us in the dark from the truth.
"the good"
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The fire in the cave represents the illusions that keep us in the dark from the truth.
It is about prisoners in a cave, chained so that they may not see anything but shadows. They have no knowledge of the world outside of the cave.
The diversity of a much bigger world than what is known inside the cave