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Cave Story Symbolism

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The cave story symbolizes the world we live in today; moreover, as humans our everyday life is shaped on our human senses or evidence, and our life decisions are based on people we meet, government and power. The cave represents the world of ignorance, the physical world that consist of materials and normal life. The prisoners represent every human on earth; furthermore, from the day we are born into a world of ignorance, we are given so many ideas, words which are not a hundred percent true, but find a way of keeping us hostage and making us view things from just one perspective. The shadows The represents illusion of the reality, our society today has created a system of belief, cultural, and societal values that blind our eyes from the

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