Analysis of Plato's ‘The Simile of The Cave’ Many literary works of the past have been very accurate to our view of society today. None of these works, however describes our view of today’s society as closely as Plato’s “Simile of the Cave”. In this work, Plato describes how he believes humans of his time behaved using a simple analogy of men in a cave. Through this analogy, Plato is able to fully show his beliefs and concept of life itself. Although very old, this literary work can still be used to associate problems of today’s society to those of the pa