Question

For the prisoners in Plato’s Cave, as they are still prisoners, what to them was real?

Group of answer choices

The fire

The shadows

The chains that held them

The sun

Answer 1

In Plato's Cave allegory, for the prisoners who are still chained and unable to move, what appears real to them are the shadows that they see on the wall in front of them. The prisoners mistake these shadows for reality because they have never experienced anything else and they have no reason to believe that there could be something beyond the cave. The shadows are their only source of perception and they believe that they are the only reality that exists.

~~~Harsha~~~