The Matrix: How Prisoners See Can Relate To Us Today

The shadows on the walls that the prisoners see can relate to us today in many possible ways. The prisoners would see the shadows and believe they were something they weren’t. One way that it relates to us that I see is the way our society judges things. Today we will judge a book or one big issue is judging people on social media. We instantly judge what we see at first without knowing what is on the inside. We suppose many things as they are and do not change what we think. People today like to be protected and be sheltered and not see new things and not get out. If the people do get out then they can learn more. It relates to the prisoners being sheltered as a prison and not able to get out and learn the new world. Another way we relate is how we listen to other and then judge by what we hear, even if it is not true or not.
We are all too focused on how celebrities are or what one person says, then we run to try to be like them. Our society believes whatever it sees on the internet or hears on the television. There are also stereotypes like race and groups we tend to believe is the right way. Our society will tell us how bad or good and that’s when we believe what we see is going on. As you can tell the prisoners in the cave watching shadows on the wall relate to us today in many ways. The film The Matrix has many similar things as in Plato’s Allegory. While watching The Matrix I could put together how Plato’s Allegory represents in many ways. Neo lives in the world controlled by the agents and it is similar as the controller of the prisoners. Then they both get to learn how the real world actually is. Neo was basically controlled by the Matrix because he didn’t know and better. As the prisoners were in a prison and seeing the shadows they didn’t know what was the truth either. The cave is basically the Matrix in the movie they symbolize each other a