The Allegory And Buffy

The Allegory of the Cave Vs. Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Similarities-
Buffy has leavels of knowledge. There is the lowest levels, the vampires. These things are driven by instinct, and though they think that they know everything and are now "better" when they are truly lower than humans. this is comparable to the slaves at the bottom of the cave. they only see shadows. they too think they know what is going on but really they are very sheltered.

The next level of knowledge is the average man. An every day human who knows the read world. they see the sun and have a job. they have families and loves ones. but they are missing a part of the world, the dark side...the side where creatures come out to get you. this is comparable to the people who make the shadows in the allegory. they see the true objects, but they do not know what it is like out side of the cave, they are missing the light side of the world. the sun and flowers.

the last level of knowledge is the highest, this is for the people who see it all. in Buffy the vampire slayer this would be Buffy. she not only knows about the monsters but she tried to get rid of them to save the people. in the allegory it is the one man who was able to escape for the cave. the man who was able to see the trees and grass. the one who was able to be free.


Differences-
there are two major differences that i see. In Buffy people are not seeing the dark side...which could be better than knowing. That is a personal opinion. where as in the allegory of the cave the slave escapes into light, the good side of the world.

Also Buffy is working on hiding everything all the the vampires and monsters. the one person who escaped from the cave was trying to spread the word of how much better it was outside




In the end they both say that there is so much in the world that we do not know about. and it may be hidden so we must look for it or it may be in our faces and we are looking away. either way we should try to find the truth.