Study Questions
for
PLATO'S
CAVE:
The Movie
1. What is the story about? What is it saying?
2. Who are the people in the cave?
3. There is one person in the cave who is different than the others, "the
philosopher." What is different about that person?
4. Why does he leave the cave? What moves him to go out?
5. What does he find is outside? What are some of the differences between
what is inside and what is outside the cave?
6. Why does he return to the cave? What moves him to return?
7. When he returns, he says something (in Greek) to the others. What do
you suppose he is saying?
8. Why do the people in the cave attack him? What provokes them to attack
him?
9. "They beat him to death with their own chains." What does
that sentence mean, as you understand it?
10. Why do you suppose their chains have no locks on them? What does that
mean?
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