Plato's Allegory of the Cave, recorded in Book VII of The Republic, written over 2 millenniums ago (c. 380 BCE) is still widely debated and applied to a variety of topics within contemporary society. At the same time we have people indulging themselves in illusionary relationships of fake understanding and bliss. Society, itself, has become to jaded to realize that they are living in illusions and perhaps do not wish to out of fear, but it is possible for some who are willing to break free of these
series of films created by Andy and Lana Wachowski, and Allegory of the Cave is a work by the Greek philosopher Plato. Both ask the question of “What is reality?” and are we living in the real world or an illusion created by ourselves to adapt to the environment? The Matrix films are a sci-fi series that reflects on a system of what is real. The system is used to keep order, for the benefit of one, but not harming the other due to the illusion they are experiencing. This film draws from many different
is real might just be an illusion. An allegory, which is a story, poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, is the main focus of the question to figure out the truth of reality. The Matrix and Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave both reveal a great deal of ideas of whether people might be living in the illusion or the actual reality. Both express similar characteristics and help to identify how people can distinguish between reality and the illusion of reality. In the movie
many similarities between The Allegory of the Cave by Plato and The Matrix, a 1999 science fiction and action film written by The Wachowski Brothers. In the movie the Matrix and in the cave, the prisoners and Neo do not get a sense of what reality really is. They both revolve around one same question, what is the truth about their world? The prisoners only understand what they see in the shadows, which represents objects. Since the prisoners have never left the cave and haven’t seen what the world
just an illusion? Although a false reality may never be fully comprehended, Plato relays the message of a false reality through “Allegory of the Cave”. Seeing the similarities and differences between “Allegory of the Cave” and “The Matrix”, one can see that a false reality is shared by a greater power. The prisoners began to believe in false realities. A person can reach their enlightenment if they begin to look to the truthfulness and let the false fall through. In “Allegory of the Cave”, prisoners
Human beings, when asked, will clearly state that they have the ability to distinguish the real from the unreal, but once they are introduced to Plato’s theory of reality, then some minds may be changed. Plato, the father of philosophical idealism, was known to be an idealistic dualist. He introduced many concepts pertaining to dualism, and explained that only ideas or forms can be real because neither of them is dependent upon anything else in order to exist. According to Plato, the things that
the world he has been lived in was not real? Both Plato’s cave allegory and The Matrix movie describe the same story and give the same answer. One must open his eyes and mind with brave, to suffer the pain of dazzle, to see through the illusion, and thus to reach the truth. There’s not one certain side that people are supposed to agree with, although in most circumstances people make decisions with regard to benefit and habit. In Plato’s cave allegory, no matter how bright the man sees outside the den
Plato had many philosophical beliefs, one in particular that was illustrated by the Allegory of the Cave was perception. There are two different types of perception sensory perception, where one perceives the world through our sensory organs. He mentions that this type of perception is only an illusion, or a world of falsehood. Reality is impossible to perceive with our senses. Reality and truth can be perceived but only through spiritual perception, or divine enlightenment. This perception can only
In relation to Plato’s cave allegory and how people perceive films and how they are constricted to not being able to look deeper and see the true meaning behind the film, Nancy Bauer comments that ‘We are imprisoned in our own consciousness, consigned either to go on watching the wall of shadows or to shut our eyes’ (Bauer, Nancy. 2005) with this statement she is setting her argument that as the audience of a movie we are confined to only see the shadows within the ‘cave’. When watching a film it
In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, he emphasizes that the forms and shadows the senses perceive are contrary to the reality and to what the mind sees. The strength of this allegory provide a great effect on the philosophical perspective of people. However, it does not imply that weaknesses are not included. Plato, through Socrates, discusses the world of senses, the people who philosophically resembles the prisoners, and the similitude between the cave and the world people know. Plato’s use of hypothetical