After years and years of living with false beliefs in a dark area, Plato tells us how those people will behave. Plato states that “when he approaches the light his eyes will be dazzled and he will not be able to see anything of what we today call reality”. (122). Plato is basically saying how people would feel when they left the cave for the first time and came into contact with light and reality. I have two opinions about Plato's claim that we can get out of the cave. On the one hand, I agree that if we get out of the cave it will be difficult and confusing at first. On the other hand, I'm not sure we'll be able to get out of the cave. I think we humans have been in the cave for so long that we don't have the ability to get out of the cave and into reality. Furthermore, Bacon's point of view is that every human being has his own cave in which he lives. We tend to live in a dark cave full of false beliefs and delusions to make our difficult lives more bearable. Bacon states that "every man has a cave or lair of his own, which refracts and discolors the light of nature." (131). Bacon's point is that every person has a cave full of false beliefs. He thinks that each cave represents how each person wants to live their life with disappointments. Bacon's cave theory is extremely useful because it loses its hair