What do these things represent in your life?
The Cave: represents the world around me, my home, my school etc. The cave represents the world in which we live.
The Fire: the fire represents the source of all knowledge, it is also the source of being, without the fire the shadows on the wall would not be able to exist. In reality the fire represents the sun.
The Prisoners: The prisoners represent society being held in this world and the opinions and beliefs accepted by society are the shackles that don't allows us to try and discover new possibilities.
The Shadows: The shadows represent the projections from the world of forms.
The Shackles: The shackles are people's beliefs holding us back from discover a different reality.
