Comparing Cave Prisoners And Neo Leaving The Matrix

Like the prisoners in the cave, Neo and Cypher are the prisoners of the misleading world of the matrix. In addition, it is heartbreaking both for Plato's prisoners and Neo to understand their past confusions about the real condition of things. Like the shadows from the objects disguise reality from the prisoners, so does the matrix blinds the people who are in

In Plato's Cave, the prisoners are tied down with chains, hand, and foot under bondage. In fact they have been there since their childhood, which much like matrix people are seen as in reality being bound within a pad whereby they are feed images/illusions which keep them in a dreamlike state and they have been in this bondage by virtue of the virtual reality pads in the fields since their youth and like the allegory of the Cave they are completely unaware of such a predicament since in regards to the Cave they have become conditioned to the shadows that dance upon the wall and do not see the true forms of which the shadow is a mere non-substantial pattern of. In the Matrix, within the person of the virtual world, it is a non-substantial pattern of the world, it is reflective of the real world, it is a shadow in its form and nature being a simulation of the world at a particular point in history. Like the prisoners in the cave, those who are prisoners in the system of a matrix are held in their calm state by reason of the illusion that stimulates them and tricks them into remaining asleep or rather into being ignorant of the fact that they are prisoners in pads so the machines can feed on their bio-energy. The shadows on the wall which are reflective is to keep the prisoners on the Cave unaware of the fact that they are prisoners, that they are under bondage and have never truly seen life outside of the Cave. The shadows on the walls are by puppets, perchance puppeteers. They could be seen as the agents, whom within the Matrix being programs are to maintain that the humans asleep in the matrix remain in their comatose state, they are to support the illusion, by keeping man actively ignorant of what is truly happening, so they never wake up. The puppeteers of the puppets which are seen on the wall to keep the mind of the prisoners stimulated so they never realize that they are chained, and only have a vision that is straightforward, which is basically saying their minds are only subjected to a single perspective and they are blind to the degree of seeing within other perspectives, broader perspectives and this in and of itself is a limitation.

His body isn’t ready for the direct sunlight and his mind cannot comprehend the world in comparison to what he felt he knew. In time, the man is able to see that all of the previously “known” information he had was completely false but also that he must start a different journey in order to find himself as the way of life he was previously use to, in which guessing was the way of judging knowledge, is ineffective and useless to him now. Finally, the prisoner returns to the cave with a new base of knowledge. He tried to share this information with his fellow prisoners but after hearing about his travels and that they were in fact wrong the prisoned men said to him that “up he went and down he came without eyes, and that it was better to not even think of ascending” ("The Simile of the Cave." Republic, 1974) . He is then met with resistance in offering them help and freedom from their binds. They threaten “if anyone tried to loose another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the offender and put him to death”, it is as if they feel that his “loss of sight” is death to them and they are perfectly happy with the information that they know to be true ("The Simile of the Cave." Republic, 1974) .

The Matrix itself is very comparable to the cave because both are prisons of false reality. Humans are trapped and manipulated by their surroundings.Their senses are tricked and they can 't recognize the truth. In the Allegory of the Cave, “people have been in this dwelling since childhood, shackled by the legs and neck. Thus they stay in the same place so that there is only one thing for them to look that: whatever they encounter in front of their faces. But because they are shackled, they are unable to turn their heads around.” Just like the prisoners, Neo is chained to a bunch of machines who blind him from the real world. In the film, Morpheus says: “Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, kept inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind”. Neither the prisoners or the people living in the Matrix know they are trapped. They are unaware anything exists beyond their

In the Allegory of the Cave there are chained prisoners in cave who can only stare at the cave wall in front of them. At the back there is a long entrance with a staircase the width of the cave and a fire burning in the distance. They see only shadows projected in front of them from a raised platform and hear an echo that they attribute to what they observe. They talk about and name the shadows of objects they see before them. To them the truth are the shadows. Then one day one of the prisoners is released. He is told that what he saw before was an illusion. Once he is outside it takes a while for his eyes to adjust to the sun. First he observed the shadows of thing then their reflection and finally the actual object. Remembering his previous state he goes back to the cave and tries to explain that everything is an illusion but they laugh at him and think he’s crazy. They believe it best not to ascend and they choose to remain as they are. The cave represented opinion. The shadows that are cast on to the wall represented physical objects. The prisoners represented the common people (Welles).

When Neo is revived from being detached from the pod, Morpheus tells him what state the world is in now. Neo turns into a state of disarray and denial. This new knowledge of the truth overwhelmed Neo so much that he vomited and passed out. The released prisoner in "The Allegory of the Cave" might feel that what he is seeing was the illusion and shadows on the

Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” starts off with humanity living in a cave chained up to a wall with no ability to move. The only sight that these refugees can see in this dark cave are shadows casted on the wall in front of them. For their whole

“The world you see is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth…Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be told what

Because of how we live, true reality is not obvious to most of us. However, we mistake what we see and hear for reality and truth. This is the basic premise for Plato抯 Allegory of the Cave, in which prisoners sit in a cave, chained down, watching images cast on the wall in front of them. They accept these views as reality and they are unable to grasp their overall situation: the cave and images are a ruse, a mere shadow show orchestrated for them by unseen men. At some point, a prisoner is set free and is forced to see the situation inside the cave. Initially, one does not want to give up the security of his or her familiar reality; the person has to be dragged past the fire and up the entranceway. This is a

Neo, who is the main character, is trapped in a false existence, which is crated by a computer program. The Machines created the program also took over the planet. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is about a prisoner who is able to understand the difference between the reality of the cave and the real one out side of the cave. But both of these films revolve around the same metaphysical question, “what is real?” there are quite a few similarities that the matrix and the cave share. One of the biggest similarities is the fact that they both, Neo and the freed prisoner have to face the acceptance of the truth about themselves. Both of them have to accept the truth before they can learn the truth and about the essential truths. Neo and the freed prisoner need to experience proof that the senses are inadequate and that they can be systematically deceived before they can learn the knowledge they need. Both of the worlds in the stories are controlled by a greater power. For example, Plato’s prisoners live in a cave that is controlled by the leaders, while Neo lives in a world that is controlled by the matrix. In the end both of the characters realise that they are just prisoners and were unaware of the reality they thought they know.

They are only able to stare at the wall in front of them. The prisoners see shadows dancing across the cave wall. Puppeteers, who are behind the prisoners, hold up puppets that cast shadows on the wall of the cave with help of the fire. These prisoners only know the shadows therefore the mistake it for reality. There is a small window in the cave that allows light into the cave.

However after awhile their eyes adjust and are able to see not only the shadows, but reflections and eventually people themselves, as Plato wrote “when he remembered his old habitation and the wisdom of the den and his fellow prisoners, do you not suppose that he would felicitate himself on the change, and pity them?” (Plato 870). After being outside for awhile they are eventually thrown back into the blinding darkness of the cave.

In “The Allegory of the Cave,” Plato also stated that eventually one of the prisoners, who Plato would say was the philosopher or intellectual, would break free from the cave and into the outside world. The one prisoner that Plato refers to, would also reflect Neo in “The Matrix” when he in being released from his pod that the machines have created. Once the prisoner of the cave has broken free he can now look all around him, and see the objects as they really are and the people carrying them as well. While in the movie “The Matrix”, Neo is using is own eyes for the first time and sees that he is actually living in a human factory. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” he states that the freed prisoner would be shocked by the outside world, he would not be able to see the realities that he was used to deep in the shadows of the cave. The prisoner would try to think that what he saw and experienced before was truer than what is he sees now. When Neo is revived from being detached from the pod, Morpheus tells him what state the world is in now and Neo is in a state of disarray and denial. This new knowledge of the truth, overwhelmed Neo so much that he vomited and passed out. The released prisoner in “The Allegory of the Cave” might feel that what he is seeing was the illusion and shadows on the wall

The man ran up the hill towards the light and the end of the cave where he was temporarily blinded because he was used to the darkness inside of the cave. Of course this is all very confusing to him and maybe even angers him because he does not understand what he is seeing. Eventually this man will gain knowledge of the world and everything in it, from the shadows of the objects he saw on the wall of the cave all the way up to how the sun helps the earth. He will see that was he was made to see and understand was not reality but just was he was made to believe. This freed man now pities the other prisoners that are still inside the cave because he realizes how wrong they were about everything they know. Plato describes how if the freed prisoner were to go back to the cave and tell the others what he has seen that they would criticize him, laugh at him and tell him he would have been better off if he had never escaped. They even go as far to say that if another person were to be released that they should be caught and killed so as to not follow the same fate as the released prisoner.

Ever since humans have existed, we have tried to understand the deeper meaning of our surroundings whether that be through deep conversation or scientific research. In the movie “The Matrix”, directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, the main character, Neo, goes through an enlightening process of learning about the matrix and eventually how to use it. He meets Trinity, a person already knowing of the matrix, and she introduces him to Morpheus. Morpheus tells Neo he is the one and at first he is confused and doesn’t fully understand what this means. He goes through training to grasp some of the power the matrix has. Throughout the entire movie Neo is chased by agents who want to use the power he has for evil. Once his training was finished Morpheus was captured by the agents and Neo goes to save him. It’s on this rescue mission that Neo finally utilizes the full power the matrix truly has. He dodges bullet and fights with lightning quick speed and it is at this point that he has become fully enlightened. The opening story in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave start off with a of a group of prisoner chained to look at a wall of shadows. The prisoners only know of these shadows only and have no clue of what the object making the shadow really is or what it truly looks like. Plato writes on saying that if one of the prisoners is drug out of the cave he will be blinded by the light but eventually he we become used to the light and hopefully use the light for good. Plato refers to light as