The philosopher Plato in his seminal work The Republic argues, using Socrates as a vehicle in the allegory of the cave, that knowledge and truth lead to freedom. Glaucon and Socrates get into an argument about a group of prisoners who can only see what is right in front of their faces. They are chained in a cave unable to move. Behind them is a fire and a group of puppeteers, their fortress, who use props: vases, statues, puppets and other objects to cast shadows on the wall in front of the prisoners. That's all they've ever seen. It's the truth they know. Occasionally a prisoner is forced to leave the cave. They must be forced to leave the world they know. Socrates tells Glaucon about the achievement of one of the prisoners, who left ignorance and moved into intellectual truth. The freedman would naturally feel pity for his former comrades because they live in a false reality. Would he return to the darkness to educate and free his fellow prisoners? He would see nothing but darkness. Could the puppeteers have allowed him to live once they knew the truth? His companions in the darkness of the cave would not have been able to understand the truth. Their chains keep them in their state of ignorance. The status quo prefers prisoners to be ignorant, since they can control their thoughts and their perception of the truth. The freedman would be put to death for attempting to educate the prisoners and free them from their ignorance. The other prisoners would not have been able to understand the truth. Socrates identifies this with the individual journey towards knowledge and once achieved the person does not want to return to a state of ignorance. The effects of knowledge change on a personal, political, social and national level (Socrates is not against all forms of poetry, but only the imitative genre. It is not truth. A creation fixed in the mirror is not real. It is a reflection of original, and it can be distorted and changed in ways that destroy the original. According to Socrates, imitative poetry does not provoke thought and corrupts the soul even a wise person was the only protection against the corruption of this type of poetry. Imitation diminished the value of the original; poetry, art, etc. Socrates asks Glaucon to distinguish the difference in an original object , a bed, created by a carpenter and copied by a painter. The bed was copied or created by the painter. It was copied as it was or as it appeared. What is the truth? The painter is not the author of the bed in question He is only the copier of the carpenter's art. He imitated the carpenter's art without the carpenter's sacrifice. The beauty of art never changes, beauty never changes but perception can be changed by imitation. From the reflection in the mirror. It can be imitated but it is not the truth. Imitation is deception, seduction and corruption of