Reality In Plato's The Allegory Of The Cave

After reading The Matrix, Plato’s The Republic (The Allegory of the Cave), and Descartes Mediation I of the Things of Which We May Doubt, I can see multiple similarities and differences. In The Matrix, they were controlled by a computer screens that sent neuron signals to the brain that they changed their reality. In The Allegory of the Cave, Plato wrote that the people in the cave were controlled by mankind and in Descartes, the mediator is controlled by doubt and skepticism. In all three of these writings, they question whether or not reality was real or if it was not. They also wanted to escape the perceived reality they were in to find what was their true reality. Each of these stories show how individual’s minds can be manipulated into