Although The Matrix has similarities and differences with famous philosophical works such as Plato's The Republic and Descartes' Mediation I, these works only perpetuate skepticism regarding realism and neglect the unconditional truth. Some of the likenesses within these acclaimed readings include characters with presuppositions and environments that maintained ignorance. For example, the secrecy of the master computer, the director of this universe, forced Neo, Matrix’s protagonist, to function relatively normal even though the world he lives in is an illusion, and he would have continued to be ignorant without the guidance of Morpheus. The Republic’s prisoners are prone to accept the viewed shadows and echoes as reality because there was
