Plato's Allegory of the Cave

In Plato's "Allegory of the Cave", he uses the example of prisoners in a cave faced toward a wall with a small beam of light from outside. By using the essence of real and not real, someone could manipulate the prisoners. This allegory can be paralleled to the same idea of solitary confinement. By limiting any interactions with social and physical life, the human brain will erupt. This element of torture is used to corrupt the individual psychologically as well as physically. When an individual cannot sort between real and not real, they begin to go insane and can start physically harming themselves. The shadows are meant to stimulate the the real aspects a prisoner's brain, but they actually confuse the prisoner because the shadows could also be fake. This allegory proves that the human brain can be manipulated far beyond learning, it can be used to create a downfall to an individual.