Plato's cave

The story that Plato writes about in his book called The Republic called Allegory of the Cave. IN this cave their are captives that their whole life is a fallacy. They are lead to believe that the images they are shown on this cave wall are what is real, and as far as they no all that they see is real. they live their lives in the pretend world and being content with it because they know no better. their captors are almost like a mad scientist trying out there experiments on these people and not caring that they don't have any real life so to speak of. these captors thought they were so wise that they felt that they could keep these ignorant people down below. one man escapes and goes up to a new world to him and now he cant ever go back down under the cave.