Plato's Allegory Of The Cave Comparison Essay

The two texts that include The Matrix and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave both have similar ideas in the way that they both show how everyone has a different idea on what reality is. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave shows a cave where people have been kept since birth. The people are tied up in a way which has them only able to see the shadows in front of them and nothing else either side or behind them. The reality for these people that are tied up is just the shadows of all different things that are walking along behind them including people and animals. When one of the prisoners escapes his bonds he goes out and sees the real world for what it truly is and this person goes back to try to tell the other prisoners. The other prisoners just see the escaped prisoner as a shadow with a voice that they can’t understand. The Matrix is very similar because Neo the main character starts out living in a fake reality of the real world and then gets shown what the actual reality is.
One of the similarities is that there are two realities in both which includes the fake reality and the true reality. In both texts one of the people living in the fake reality escapes and goes to the real reality which they realise is completely different than they expected. Another similarity in both the texts is that the person who escapes the fake reality wants to go back and help others to understand that they are living in a fake reality. One of the differences between the two texts is the fact that in The Matrix Neo has other people show him the true reality, whereas in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave the prisoner breaks free and finds the real reality all on their own. The prisoner had no one to guide them as to what was going on whereas in Neo’s case he had people that helped him to see what was going on pretty much straight away. Both of the texts have many similarities as well as a few differences between