It is a story of human (and animal) connections in uncertain times, how people can deceive themselves, and how we maintain our illusions rather than confronting the truth. It is a social commentary on the increasing artificiality of our world. I think it is particularly pertinent to our present time.

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Since age 12 I have loved historical Fiction pre war of the states (aka civil war). More recently I happened upon Clan of the Cave Bear. To my way of thinking this is a work or creative genius to write such compelling “historical fiction” in such delightfully mesmerizing manner making fiction facts so real as to be convincingly “historical”. I more than love it. Many thanks to Ms. Auel for sharing her boundless gift with us. Many, many thanks. Reply The novel was adapted into a television series by the BBC in the 1990s, retitled Merlin of the Crystal Cave, and starred Robert Powell as Ambrosius. vague obscure feeling of being part of something dangerously complex and, so to speak, full of slippery meanings, a whole made up of parts in which each individual is, simultaneously, both one of the parts and the whole of which he is a part." As the prisoner ascends from the Cave and emerges into the World of Day, allegorically his levels of intellect improve as his ascension progresses. Intellectually, the developing thinker moves from the level of imagining, upward to common-sense belief, thence to thinking, thence to the summit of Dialectic, also termed intelligence or knowledge. (Refer to the conversation about the levels of intellect in the preceding analysis.)Galapas, a local mage who teaches Merlin much natural lore and some magic, and who bequeathes to him the crystal cave. Slowly, his eyes adjust to the light of the sun. First he can see only shadows. Gradually he can see the reflections of people and things in water and then later see the people and things themselves. Eventually, he is able to look at the stars and moon at night until finally he can look upon the sun itself (516a)." [2] Only after he can look straight at the sun "is he able to reason about it" and what it is (516b). [2] (See also Plato's analogy of the sun, which occurs near the end of The Republic, Book VI.) [4] [5] Return to the cave edit Tsabar, Boaz (1 January 2014). " 'Poverty and Resourcefulness': On the Formative Significance of Eros in Educational Practice". Studies in Philosophy and Education. 33 (1): 75–87. doi: 10.1007/s11217-013-9364-5. S2CID 144408538. Mitta, Dimitra (1 January 2003). "Reading Platonic Myths from a Ritualistic Point of View: Gyges' Ring and the Cave Allegory". Kernos (16): 133–141. doi: 10.4000/kernos.815. Murphy, N. R. (April 1932). "The 'Simile Of Light' in Plato's Republic". The Classical Quarterly. 26 (2): 93–102. doi: 10.1017/S0009838800002366. S2CID 170223655.

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Thomas Browne in his 1658 discourse Urn Burial stated: "A Dialogue between two Infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Platoes denne, and are but Embryon Philosophers".The 2013 movie After the Dark has a segment where Mr. Zimit likens James' life to the Allegory of the Cave. The skill required to make the power and limitations of verbal and written communication visible, and to make them in turn equal with the variety of other symbolic ways we express ourselves, to ourselves as well as to others, is immense: The films The Conformist, The Matrix, Cube, Dark City, The Truman Show, Us and City of Ember model Plato's allegory of the cave, as does the TV series 1899. [17] In an episode of the television show Legion, titled " Chapter 16", the narrator uses Plato's Cave to explain "the most alarming delusion of all", narcissism.