Thinking Outside the Box

Create a post for your blog entitled THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX in which you compare how Plato and Sartre describe the limitations of our thinking and imply solutions to the problem.  Be sure to analyze their literary techniques, especially their use of allegory and extended metaphor.

I am not quite sure yet, if what I am about to type answers the prompt. But here it goes.

Plato says that the only way out of our cave, our mind, is through intellect. We must be able to think for ourselves. We also must be able to hear what other people say, and from what other people say, we can venture out on our own way and experience it ourselves. Plato says that is the only way to reality. The cave represents our mind, and the outside world represents reality.

Through the use of the characters in the play "No Exit", Sartre describes the place where we tend to reflect on life and the place where our mind tends to bombard us with millions and millions of thoughts are one and the same. It is sort of hell-like because that is a place of isolation because hell is a place where there is no way to get out, but if we are able to think things through, then we will be able to find a way out. I am not sure if he using this as an allusion to the Biblical hell, but I think so.