The allegory essentially makes the claim that what we take to be reality is, in fact, a deceptive play of artifice and imagination.
The story has been told and retold over the ages, most recently in Hollywood; The Matrix is a good example, as is The Truman Show and Don't Worry Darling - all play with the theme that we're living in a manufactured world that we mistake for reality.
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