Forcing someone into a completely alternative environment with no prior knowledge of the situation is a platform for confusion and sometimes even denial. Plato’s “Allegory of The Cave,” and The Matrix both contain instances of people who have experience with the process of learning entirely new concepts. In the “Allegory of the Cave,” prisoners are exposed to shadows for all of their lives. This lifelong exposure resulted in the belief that the displayed shadows are the actuality. Furthermore, in The Matrix, Neo is apprised that the world he lives in is nonexistent. In reality, Neo’s life was simply a computerized society. Believing such foreign information was improbable to Neo and the escaped prisoner. Both these characters encounter unknown
