Plato uses the Allegory of the Cave to get across his idea that when it comes to teaching, it is not the art of giving children the gift of sight so much as it is turning their eyes in the right direction. I believe that the four levels of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in order, are best described as the "realities" based on sight and sound, the men carrying artifacts, the scientific truths that are discovered within the cave, and the wonders that exist beyond the cave.
             The first level of Plato's Allegory of the Cave is visible "reality". The prisoners who are strapped in one single position since the dawn of their lives are incapacitated in such a way that all they are capable of doing is watching a stone wall cast in mysterious shadows. At this point, the spectators are unaware of what exactly they are witnessing. At first they would speculate as to how the shadows are flat and black and hold no matter yet are capable of motion and consistent movement. They would also examine the imperfections in the stone wall in front of them, and the graininess of the ground they knelt upon.
             Level two of Plato's allegory consists of the objects that are the source of the shadows that are cast upon the wall. These shadows are brought upon the wall by a fire that lay on the opposite side of a line of traveling performers as the prisoners who are chained in place. Each performer is made to carry a single unique puppet as they walk. Due to the shape of the cave, the echoes whose primary sources are the traveling performers will in fact appear to be created by the shadows cast upon the wall. Because of these factors, the prisoners that are chained down will come to the conclusion that it is none other than the shadows passing along the wall which create these sounds and emanate them throughout the cavern.
             The third level of Plato's allegory consists of scientific truth
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