Thinking Outside The Box

Well in both the "Allegory of the Cave" and Sartre's play the idea of people only seeing what is in front of them is stated. In the allegory of the cave Plato explains through extended metaphor and the allegory with the character of the prisoner only seeing the shadows created by the fire behind him and nothing else of the world. As in Sartre's play the three roomates fail to see at first the room itself and themselves are their own torture created by the devil(or whoever runs hell in this play). Satre describes his point with extensive and descriptive dialogue. Also in Satre's play the characters although as hard as they try in reality are set up to see and feel what hell has set for them to be their eternal torture same as the Plato's allegory of the cave with the metaphor of the fire creating the shadows that the prisoners believe to be everything.