Thinking Outside the Box.

In Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and Sartre's "No Exit" there are many similarities in describing the limitations of knowledge. In both of these passages there are characters in which are trapped in a place and don't have enough knowledge of the world or knowledge of what is really going on.

The both use the form of dialogue which helps give the sense that the characters are trying to figure out what is happening. For example, in "Allegory of the Cave" one of the characters escapes and gets to see the outside world unlike the people in the cave who think the shadows are what the world really looks like and they don't want to hear what the man has to say. In "No Exit" the characters are in hell and they can't get out. They both show that the characters are just settling with what they know.

In conclusion both of these pieces of literature show how the characters are limited of knowledge. Also how some things are hidden from them. They think these things they see are what things are really like and they begin to just settle for what they know or for what is given to them. A solution would be for people to search for things they don't know and not just settle for what they know.