Associate Prof., Basic Science Department, Faculty of engineering, Delta University for Science and Technology, Gamasa, Coastal International Road, Dakahlia, Egypt
Plato's The Allegory of the Cave, Book VII of The Republic and Pinter's The Room (1957) show not only much similarity but also fundamental differences. This paper analyzes the similarities between Rose, Pinter's character and the shackled prisoners in Plato's allegory. Both works have the same beginning and the same ending. In the two works Both Plato and Pinter share the existentialist point of view that man is a stranger in the world. In addition, both works are introducing the idea of art for truth's sake and consequently art for life's sake. The play has nearly the same plot structure of the Allegory and Rose, the protagonist of the play becomes "A Pinter's character in Plato's cave".