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 concept of the matrix in the movie is much like Plato's concept of the underground cave in his story. ... The final connection between Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and Wachowski's The Matrix,...

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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 concept of the matrix in the movie is much like Plato's concept of the underground cave in his story. ... The final connection between Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and Wachowski's The Matrix,...

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The Matrix In Plato's Republic the Allegory of the Cave is a story, which is very similar to the storyline of Matrix. In the Allegory of the Cave, there are men who are prisoners in a cave that have been there their whole life. ... The freed prisoner, from the Allegory of the Cave, leaves the Cave and discovers the world of forms. ... In terms of Plato's ideas the real world would be the Matrix... Morpheus's description of the Matrix to Neo echoes these images of Plato's cave. ...

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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 ...

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Myth of the Matrix In Plato's "Myth of the Cave," a man is portrayed who has spent his entire life in a cave chained by his hands, feet, and neck to the cave's wall. ... Neo, like the man chained to the wall in "Myth of the Cave," accepts as reality what he has seen his whole life. ... When the man in the cave is one day unchained and taken out of the cave into the light of outside, his eyes begin to burn from the brightness of daylight. ... Because of this, the man from the cave returns to his former home in order to tell those still chained there of the outside. ... As a r...

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The Matrix of Man, Technology, and Reality And how the program for The Matrix Was written hundreds of years ago Introduction: What is the Matrix? Which pill will you take; will it be the red one or the blue? Will you choose the blissfulness of ignorance, or will you see how far down the rabbit hole goes? This is a question you need to answer, when you decide to dive into the philosophy of the Matrix, one of the biggest blockbuster film trilogies, joining notable other such film trilogies as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Terminator, and Star Trek. The Matrix although it has the ability...

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