Thinking outside the box

Both Plato and Sartre use a similar limiting factor for their extended metaphor, Platos being the cave and Sartres the room with the second Empire chair. Plato thought our limitation of our thinking was the human inability to conceive the truth and conforming with our hazy abstraction of the truth. Sartre limitations were Garcins, Estelles, and Inez fear of the unknown. Both the men in the cave and the individuals in the cave shared their rejection of the unknown.