Summary of Plato's Myth of the cave

In Plato's "The Myth of the Cave", the author describes the journey of a person from an unenlightened state to an enlightened one. He uses a parable to tell the reader of a persons journey to knowledge. In the parable, Plato describes a cave in which many people are kept chained up facing a wall, and there is a long opening at the back of the cave behind all the people. All that anyone living in the cave can see are the shadows which are cast by the people passing by. All they can hear are the voices of others in the cave, and the voices of the people going by, which they assume come from the shadows because of the sound bouncing off the wall. The shadows are their reality.
A man is then released from his b...