In his writing, Plato asks everyone to imagine humans as prisoners kept from childhood in a deep, dark cave. They have chains around their necks to keep them facing forward while a fire from behind them projects shadows on the wall in front of them. These shadows act as the only real thing that they have ever come across (Plato). After one prisoner is set free and able to turn around, he becomes very confused of what is behind him. The prisoner is at a loss since he cannot differentiate between the reality that was unexpectedly presented to him and the one he had grown up with. There are some similarities and differences, though, between the allegory and the film. In the cave allegory, the prisoners are enlightened of their error and freed by their masters (Plato). In The Matrix, Neo is set free by a band of rebels trying to find the truth and damage the Matrix. While in the cave, the prisoners see their shadows against the wall and understand them as being completely real by using their senses while in the film, the slaves do not use theirs, instead all of their senses are stimulated by signals sent right to the
In his writing, Plato asks everyone to imagine humans as prisoners kept from childhood in a deep, dark cave. They have chains around their necks to keep them facing forward while a fire from behind them projects shadows on the wall in front of them. These shadows act as the only real thing that they have ever come across (Plato). After one prisoner is set free and able to turn around, he becomes very confused of what is behind him. The prisoner is at a loss since he cannot differentiate between the reality that was unexpectedly presented to him and the one he had grown up with. There are some similarities and differences, though, between the allegory and the film. In the cave allegory, the prisoners are enlightened of their error and freed by their masters (Plato). In The Matrix, Neo is set free by a band of rebels trying to find the truth and damage the Matrix. While in the cave, the prisoners see their shadows against the wall and understand them as being completely real by using their senses while in the film, the slaves do not use theirs, instead all of their senses are stimulated by signals sent right to the