Humanities -1; Delano
March 12, 2012 One lives in a prison that is unknown to the common eye. In The Matrix as well as in the Allegory of the cave, state a similar meaning of one living in a world with a greater truth. Both The Allegory by Plato and the Matrix, speake and argue about a prison, a prison within our life and our world that one does not know of. Similarities are drawn between both the story and the movie. It gives one an idea of what Plato stated in his philosophical allegory in a more modern time, compare to the year Plato wrote the allegory. Both stories are common in the way they describe two worlds that humans are not aware of. The Matrix uses the Allegory of the cave as an outline of what the movie is