Plato made an allegory to a Cave to represent the human condition and how he opens his eyes to his true purpose.
At first there are two different groups of humans; the People and the Prisoners. The Prisoners are all the way in the back of Cave and they can't see the light coming from the opening. There is a fire that the People make shadow puppets with, and that is the only thing the Prisoners can see. By Prisoner Plato mean humans that are going through a struggle or hard times that they can't find a way out of. The People are still going through the struggle and is still in the Cave of lies and deceit but they are close to getting over it.
When the person comes out of being a Prisoner he sees that the shadows are just statues and figurines of ignorance. Once he knows that the illusions that he was looking at weren't reality he starts to get over the hardship in his life to become a People. Then he makes it out of the Cave and into the sunlight.
The Sun is reality, a reality that the former Prisoner didn't expect. But once he sees this he can't go back to not knowing what the world is really like, so he has to adjust to his new life in the enlightenment period and go fully through the process of getting over his struggle.
My Cave
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