Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is all about perspectives and understanding. The main point that Plato wants to make throughout the story is the idea that people only know things through the words and understanding of others. This applies to the situation in this story where each prisoner tells each other what it is although they are only looking at a shadow of it. Throughout the first half of this semester there has been many examples in our text with characters experiencing very similar situations. The stories I decided to focus on with these similar situations was in Metamorphosis with the story of Apollo and Daphne, The Bible with the story of Joseph, and the Aeneid. These stories have many things in common with Plato’s allegory of the cave. They all look at things with different perspective after being in different situations and enduring hardships. …show more content…
He hears from God that he is destined to do great things to help his fellow Trojan citizens. The Greece have many battles with the Trojans over the years and end up overthrowing them. This is when Aeneas needed to take the advice he heard from God to heart. He imagined the way he would do great things for his people would only occur by defeating the Greece and keeping their land. After they were defeated, he faced the challenge of what to do now. He decided to try to move them to Italy but were then pushed off by storm and disease. He eventually made it to the underworld where he heard from his father that he must continue his journey to find good land for the Trojans to live. This leads to them eventually finding a place to settle which was his mission all along. Only through working through difficult situations was he then able to understand the true reality of his