Compare how Plato & Sartre describe the limitations of our thinking and imply solutions to the problem. Invite ten people to read/comment. Be sure to analyze their literary techniques, especially their use of allegory and extended metaphor.
Both Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and Sartre's "No Exit" elucidate the idea that prisoners are confined in the "dark/Hell" by themselves. The prisoners who are chained up in the cave are relentless to discovering new ideas and concepts they encounter. They got so used to the shadow that they are afraid to compromise to the light a.k.a. reality. When one the of the freed prisoners manages to escape, search for the truth, and come back to tell the others, he was mocked. They thought he was crazy and spoke nonsense. Garcin in "No Exit" has a chance to leave, but he realizes that no matter what he does, he won't be able to escape Hell and decides to stay. The people who were with him were the actual torturers, not the fact that they were in Hell.
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