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-When Charles II returned to power in 1660, the Anglican church again became the establised church. Some diversity was allowed, but well-known nonconformists like Bunyan were jailed as examples. -Pilgrims Progress is an allegory. Christian allegories date back to the fourth century a.d., when Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy. -Allegory ~ is the reading of documents on several levels. It was used by church in middle ages, and still is popular.
The story of the cave is the allegory, hence the name Allegory of the Cave. An allegory is a story which explains an abstract idea or event, in a nutshell. In the Allegory of the Cave Plato is using the story of the cave and being dragged up into the light to illustrate the difference between opinion and knowledge and the two worlds, one of particulars and the other of Forms, in his theory. Thus, the entire description is an allegory.