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…showed last 75 words of 706 total…They would try to talk to their old companions, but be seen as silly, because in their world, reality is what everybody around them knows, sees and says. The Allegory of the Cave illustrates many ways of reasoning. Glaucon being the anxious student and Socrates his ancient master. There are many ways of interpreting the story; one way is the comparison of The Allegory of the Cave to today\'s way of living and thinking.