Plato's work "The Allegory of the Cave", a selection from his text "The Republic", is the strongest example of the use of philosophical views in The Matrix. Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" is a story used to describe the control that society and the government has over ordinary citizens. ... At the end of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave", one prisoner is released out of the cave and imprisonment and into the world outside of the cave. ... The movie The Matrix parallels Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in a number of ways. ... The final connection between Plato's "Allego...

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Plato's work "The Allegory of the Cave", a selection from his text "The Republic", is the strongest example of the use of philosophical views in The Matrix. Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" is a story used to describe the control that society and the government has over ordinary citizens. ... At the end of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave", one prisoner is released out of the cave and imprisonment and into the world outside of the cave. ... The movie The Matrix parallels Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in a number of ways. ... The final connection between Plato's "Allego...

• Word Count: 1070
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In analyzing the Matrix one will be able to see how Descartes" Meditations on Methodic doubt, his Evil Genius Hypothesis, and Plato's allegory of the cave are portrayed in this film. ... Plato's allegory of the cave can also be seen in the Matrix. Plato's theory is that we are like prisoners tied up on the floor of the cave. ... Thus like the prisoner in Plato's allegory that is freed and that goes and looks around, that also sees the cave and sees the fire burning which is producing the shadows inside the cave, Neo is like this prisoner in the cave and once freed from the ...

• Word Count: 1020
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• Grade Level: High School