The Matrix and the Allegory of the Cave
The Matrix and The Allegory of the Cave
"The Allegory of the Cave" and "The Matrix" is similar stories which about there are two realities, one is illusion and the other is real. In both stories, the humans trapped in the in the illusion, they see only what the otehrs want them to see, but they believe they see reality as it really is. They accept what their senses tell them as all that exists.
In "The Allegory of the Cave," the prisoners have chained their legs and necks by “puppet-handles” who creating the shadow and represent as the powerful people. In "The Matrix," people are being fooled and influenced by the fake reality, also the “shadow” because they are also living inside the artificial world they have created.
In "The Allegory of The Cave," Plato assumes that one of the prisoners has escaped from his chains and flees the cave. After, this person turning around in his chair, he would be able to see the real objects instead shadows on the cave wall. In the movie, "The Matrix," this scene directly parallels with Neo's scene in the matrix. After Neo “awake”, he see, for the first time, his true surroundings.
At first, the freed prisoner would be confused at what he saw. “…he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him,” (Plato,p2). When Neo is finally confronted with the surrounding, the real world, he is uncertain about this world is the virtual world. In "The Allegory of the Cave," the freed man might even feel that what he was seeing now was the illusion and the shadows on the wall were actually more real. “Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?” (Plato,p2). The freed prisoner's first reaction would be to turn around and return to the false reality because it is less painful and more familiar to him. As similar as the movie shows, Cypher tells Trinity, "I think the matrix can be more real than this world."
According to Plato, the freed man must have started to question
"The Allegory of the Cave" and "The Matrix" is similar stories which about there are two realities, one is illusion and the other is real. In both stories, the humans trapped in the in the illusion, they see only what the otehrs want them to see, but they believe they see reality as it really is. They accept what their senses tell them as all that exists.
In "The Allegory of the Cave," the prisoners have chained their legs and necks by “puppet-handles” who creating the shadow and represent as the powerful people. In "The Matrix," people are being fooled and influenced by the fake reality, also the “shadow” because they are also living inside the artificial world they have created.
In "The Allegory of The Cave," Plato assumes that one of the prisoners has escaped from his chains and flees the cave. After, this person turning around in his chair, he would be able to see the real objects instead shadows on the cave wall. In the movie, "The Matrix," this scene directly parallels with Neo's scene in the matrix. After Neo “awake”, he see, for the first time, his true surroundings.
At first, the freed prisoner would be confused at what he saw. “…he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him,” (Plato,p2). When Neo is finally confronted with the surrounding, the real world, he is uncertain about this world is the virtual world. In "The Allegory of the Cave," the freed man might even feel that what he was seeing now was the illusion and the shadows on the wall were actually more real. “Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?” (Plato,p2). The freed prisoner's first reaction would be to turn around and return to the false reality because it is less painful and more familiar to him. As similar as the movie shows, Cypher tells Trinity, "I think the matrix can be more real than this world."
According to Plato, the freed man must have started to question