According to Plato’s Cave Allegory, the prisoners are kept in the cave since birth as they can only see and name the shadows of objects on the cave wall. This causes the prisoners to mistaken the appearance of reality due to the reason that they have never seen anything outside of the cave. Similarly, in The Matrix, the main character, Neo is trapped inside a reality created by a computerized program as the program was designed by the artificial intelligence that took over the world. Furthermore, Neo is chained down to a machine that takes away all his body’s heat and energy to power the machine. Both the prisoner and Neo are completely unaware that the reality they think they are living in is a false reality. When a prisoner manages to escape
