The Allegory of the Cave is a philosophical writing in the artistic form of allegory. The main idea of ​​this story is realism. Furthermore, Plato wants to explain to us what we make mistakes and how we manage to misunderstand what life is. Socrates said, “Show me to what extent our nature is enlightened or unenlightened.” There are two ways we can understand this story. First, Plato wished to demonstrate that we may not understand the true reality, as Socrates said: "Human beings live in an underground burrow, which has its mouth open towards the light and which extends along the whole burrow”, for example we can say that we are not enlightened, and when someone understands new things we do not believe them and see only lies, as in short stories: “Men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vases, and statues, and statues of wood and stone and of various matters, which appear above the wall.” Plato wanted to explain that our things in life could only be shadows, that we believe and that everything is only in the mind. Secondly, many people think that Plato wrote about our growth .When the prisoners sat in chains, it was childhood. For example, when people are young, they don't know what life and problems are, they see only shadows, only lies. Then, when the prisoners left the cave, he understood that the His life before had been unreal, and this is part of the story we could connect with today. For example, when adulthood begins, people want to return, but this cannot be, people are not able to go back in time. After analyzing this text, we should understand that everything that usually may not be true, because we have remembered a lot about great historical figures whose actions were outlawed. However, that couldn't stop them... the gaze of... half of the paper... towards the shadow, as towards what he can see clearly and consider real? What if someone forcibly dragged such a man out of the cave: wouldn't the man be angry with anyone who did this to him? And if dragged out into the sunlight, wouldn't he be distressed and unable to see "even one of the things now said to be true" because he was blinded by the light? After some time on the surface, however, the freed prisoner would acclimatize. He would see more and more things around him, until he could look at the Sun. He would understand that the Sun is the "source of seasons and years, and is the steward of all things in the visible place, and is in a certain way the cause of all those things that he and his companions had seen" All in general, Plato thought that only enlightened people can rule in a perfect city, only those who know the truth!