Platos cave

i understand that the plato's cave is where they keep prisoners that was chained. They were unable to turn their head and all they can see is the wall of the cave. there's fire at the back of the cave which they projects puppets as the shadow for the prisoner to see. The prisoners cant see the puppets , the only thing the prisoner can see is the shadow of the puppets and hear echoes cast by the object. The prisoner then wouldn't know what is real and what is not real as they can only see the shadows so some of the assume that what they see and hear is real.  “And if they could talk to one another, don’t you think they’d suppose that the names they used applied to the things they see passing before them?”(515b2) one of the lines from plato.  Quite confuse with this statement tho but it does make sense. they would just believe on what they see is true even if they can talk to each other. 

When the prisoners are released and see the real object they were confuse as what they see is not what they think they saw. Plato played with their mind. The mind only takes what the eyes can see and what form are they. 

What's creative about it? how plato manage to think and design this actual event and make people think differently by playing trick on the mind. 

in my opinion  plato's objective is that the mind can only take what the eyes can see and imagine what they are as the real object. but the mind can be wrong  as what we see is not always what they are. its like a mirage, the mind plays tricks on you.