Part one of term paper
Analysis of Plato's ‘The ’ Many literary works of the past have been very accurate to our view of society today. None of these works, however describes our view of today’s society as closely as Plato’s "". In this work, Plato describes how he believes humans of his time behaved using a simple analogy of men in a cave. Thro ...

Part two of term paper
... upon which pass the shadows of men living and working in the world of light. Since the prisoners in the underground cave have never known reality other than those shadows, they take them for all that actually is "the whole truth", and if voices from the world above do reach them, they believe it is the shadows speaking. In comparison of this to our government today, many similarities can be seen. Citizens of our nation today are often "blinded" from the truths that are prese ...