Allegory of the Cave and The Truman Show Plato's Allegory of the Cave is a story of how the soul moves toward enlightenment. ... Some prisoners will stay in the cave and others will venture out. ... "The Allegory of the Cave") Plato explains this with his eight stages of cognition. ... (Grube, G.M.A., Plato Republic) This is the third stage, Awareness, the prisoners leave the comfort of the cave to go into the sunlight of the world. ... The World of Forms is Plato's idea of perfection and the immortal soul. ...

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The Truman Show and the Allegory of the Cave It is clear that the producer of The Truman Show has read Plato. ... The film is remarkably similar to Plato's allegory of the cave. In his allegory of the cave, Plato asks the reader to imagine humans living in a dark cave, chained so they can only look directly at the cave wall. ... Plato also believes it would be a strange and painful journey from the darkness of the ignorance in the cave to the light of enlightenment. ... It is also in many ways a modern version of Plato's allegory of the cave....

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Response This movie relates to Plato's cave theory of how some people stayed in the cave their whole lives and only a few got to go outside and witness reality. ... Truman lived the cave concept by forcing himself that reality is a TV show with all the hidden cameras and thinking the actors in his TV show are his actual family. ... Truman already had accepted the actors and everything else as reality just like the cave prisoners accepted the shadow and light as reality because they have been living like that for so long or since birth. ... Like Plato's cave theory, the prisoners w...

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