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Allegory is a {literary device} in which {characters} or {events} in a {literary}, {visual}, or {musical art} form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts. Allegory has been used widely throughout the histories of all forms of {art}; a major reason for this is its immense power to illustrate complex ideas and concepts in ways that are easily digestible and tangible to its viewers, readers, or listeners.
An allegory conveys its {hidden message} through {symbolic figures}, {actions}, {imagery}, and/or {events}. Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric; a rhetorical allegory is a demonstrative form of representation conveying meaning other than the words that are spoken. As a {literary device}, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. One of the best known examples is Plato's "Allegory of the Cave." In this allegory, there are a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows.
According to the allegory, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality
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The content of this video is over 2,500 years old......amazing, even then, people "knew." This story is from Plato's most famous book, The Republic. Most people live in a world of relative ignorance. They are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all they know. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't EVER want to go back to being ignorant.
