Allegories are presented as an extended metaphor throughout the story. In both of the stories the allegory is similar, as they both compare the living nature of individuals as having a controlled reality, and they show this by comparing their world to the real world that the audience lives in. In both The Allegory of the Cave and The Truman Show, there is allegories that are presented by the authors to help them get their purpose across. In The Allegory of the Cave, there is the comparison of the cave to the real world, Plato used The Allegory of the cave to make readers understand that people in the real world are represented by the prisoners in his story, and they might also be stuck inside of a controlled area but they do not know. In The
