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TED-Ed: Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of history’s most famous thinkers, said life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall. Beyond sounding quite morbid, what exactly did he mean? Alex Gendler unravels Plato's Allegory of the Cave, found in Book VII of The Republic.
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Why should you read “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding? - Jill Dash
William Golding's dark exploration of human nature.
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