The_Allegory_Of_The_Cave__“Batman”_And_The_Republic

The Allegory Of The Cave: “Batman” And The Republic “Out of the darkness comes the light”, Plato and Tim Burton explore this very popular cliché in The Republic and in “Batman”. The societies in both stories exist in a tragic state of ignorance. In The Republic, the ignorant state is forced upon the people through its leadership by keeping them in the darkness of the cave. Contrasting the society in “Batman” where the people choose to live in darkness and are not bind by a physical cave. However, the physical cave in “Batman” represents a place of knowledge. Batman is able to escape from the world of ignorance in which he lives into the cave of enlightenment. In The Republic the cave represents a state of ignorance for the people of the society, whereas in “Batman” the cave represents a state of extreme intelligence for Batman. In The Republic, Plato describes the following scenario: A group of people has lived in a deep cave since birth, never seeing any daylight at all. These people are bound in such a way that they cannot look to either side or behind them, but only straight ahead. Behind them is a fire, and cave, batman, people, state, ignorance, city, republic, society, shadows, represents, prisoners, knowledge, fire, darkness, world, things, statues, real, prisoner, out, light, gotham, able, truth, one, wall, remain, realm, joker, ignorant, citizens, behind, because, whereas