How do the ideas in Platos allegory relate to reality TV?
Hopefully this will help you undertand what Plato was trying to portray. Then think about this lesson and how it relates to “reality” TV. In this cave are so arranged the people that they can only see the back wall, for they wear chains around their necks and ankles which prevent their free movement. Projected onto the wall of the cave are shadows from outside the cavern, which are concluded by the subterranean dwellers, to be real people. Now, one of the dwellers, at a certain point in his wanderings, is able, with a great deal of pain and fortitude, to turn toward the cave’s opening for a brief moment in time. He realizes what the shadows indicate: that there is a different world of sunshine and color on the other side of the opening unbeknown to the inhabitants of the cave. At once, urgency consumes his being to move toward the light. When he attempts to exist the cave, the heat on his withered, white skin scortches him to the bone. The sunlight further blinds him and his salamander
