The Matrix and the CaveThere are numerous similarities between the Matrix and Plato's “The Allegory of the Cave”. “The Allegory of the Cave” features cave prisoners who cannot move and can only see what passes over their cave and there is a prisoner who is freed (Plato, circa 380 BC). The Matrix has humans trapped inside the matrix. (Silver Pictures and the Wachowski brothers, 1999). The main character is Neo. Neo represents the prisoner of Plato's cave who was freed. Neo woke up to a reality that wasn't easy to understand. He awoke to find that there were other humans who were fixed and unable to move thanks to electronic wires, and that what he had thought he would see during his lifetime was what had been programmed by a computer simulation. The similarities between these are based on the perception of reality. The differences between The Matrix and “The Allegory of the Cave” are seen in many ways. The goal of the Matrix is to free everyone. Freedom in “The Allegory of the Cave” seems to free the very one who has been freed. In the Matrix the resistance...
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