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The Cave is an allegory devised to reflect on the nature of beliefs verse knowledge; the Allegory states that there are prisoners who are chained together in a cave. Behind the prisoners, there is fire, and between the people, there are people with puppets and others stuff. The main point in this Allegory is that the perceptions of the people cannot be drivers of knowledge and that only philosophical knowledge can drive knowledge. “Politics and the English Language" is a criticism of the "ugly and inaccurate" that was being written in those times and examines the link between the debasement of language and political orthodoxies. The main talking point of Orwell’s argument is that normalizing bad writing can lead to political oppression. This essay, therefore, will examine current political events in relation to Plato and Orwell’s writings.

In the cave allegory by Pluto, Glaukon is asked by Socrates to imagine a cave of prisoners, who have been kept in a cave from their childhood, and they are holding them in a similar manner (Eyer, 1). These prisoners have chains on their hands, legs, and necks. And are only forced to look at a wall directly to them since their necks are immobile. In the rear, there is fire, and between the fire and the prisoners, there is a path to walk away where people can walk. The people have puppets and other objects which are human lookalike and everyday items that humans use. Since these prisoners couldn't move their necks, they presumed these images to be real. The prisoners think these images are real. In a twist of the story, Socrates thought in a way that one of the prisoners would be made to look at the side of the fire; probably, the fire would hurt her eyes. And looking back to the wall, he could realize that the images were not real and that they were mere shadows of the walk-away behind them. In a case that the one prisoner turned to face fire would be brought out to the open would be more hurt by the sun. The prisoner, on adjusting, would be able to see more beyond shadows; he would see dimensions and reflections in water for himself. The prisoner would now be able to understand what his fellow prisoners are going through in the café. Suppose the prisoner gets back to the café, the follower prisoners would see him as having corrupted eyes for not having similar perceptions as them. 

The Cave is a symbol of how people have their minds fixed in a certain way of that and that they are made to believe in the things they are only exposed to. People would tend to see things according to their level of exposure. It is hard to think of liberation first when you do not notice that you are first in captivity. Exposure and familiarization with freedom would have the mind have a different thought and realize that they had been confined to their thoughts. The Allegory gives a good account of how people a limited in thought by environment (Abensour and Martin 576).

George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language" s...