In the Allegory of The Cave, Plato depicts a cave where prisoners are strapped into chairs facing a wall. There is a fire burning behind them, and in front of the fire there are puppets which throw shadows on the wall. The shadows on the wall are the prisoners reality, and they have no desire to leave because they know nothing better. If a prisoner were to escape from the chair, he would see the fire and it would hurt his eyes. So he would turn back to the shadows that are easy for him to look at. The connecting theme between the texts Fight Club written by Chuck Palahniuk, The Truman Show directed by Peter Weir, Inception directed by Christopher Nolan and The Matrix directed by the Wachowski brothers, is that the main characters are all prisoners
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In both texts, the lead characters are both parts of a network of lies and deception that keep them from understanding the true nature of their realities. There are powers behind both Neo and Truman that control how they live, resembling the puppets dancing in front of the wall in Plato’s cave.
In The Matrix, the entire human population has been enslaved by robots, and they are all deceived by a simulation of real life called the Matrix. This is very similar to the Truman Show, where Truman Burbank was the first ever baby to be adopted by a corporation. Truman spends his whole life in a fake town, living a fake …show more content…
The main characters are all begin as prisoners, either to society, crime, or just are simply imprisoned by their own realities. Each of them are watching their lives unfold on the wall in front of them, unaware of the powers acting behind them. When it comes to the escape from the chair, there is difference in methods between the texts. In Fight Club and Inception, the prisoners are connected by the idea of changing their realities unconsciously. Cobb goes to the dream world with his wife to build his life, and the Narrator creates his nihilistic alter ego that takes control over him while he
In both texts, the lead characters are both parts of a network of lies and deception that keep them from understanding the true nature of their realities. There are powers behind both Neo and Truman that control how they live, resembling the puppets dancing in front of the wall in Plato’s cave.
In The Matrix, the entire human population has been enslaved by robots, and they are all deceived by a simulation of real life called the Matrix. This is very similar to the Truman Show, where Truman Burbank was the first ever baby to be adopted by a corporation. Truman spends his whole life in a fake town, living a fake …show more content…
The main characters are all begin as prisoners, either to society, crime, or just are simply imprisoned by their own realities. Each of them are watching their lives unfold on the wall in front of them, unaware of the powers acting behind them. When it comes to the escape from the chair, there is difference in methods between the texts. In Fight Club and Inception, the prisoners are connected by the idea of changing their realities unconsciously. Cobb goes to the dream world with his wife to build his life, and the Narrator creates his nihilistic alter ego that takes control over him while he