The allegory was as true as the facts of surface appearances. ... Thus, it could be said that an allegory is an extended metaphor. One of the best known examples is Platos Allegory of the Cave, included in his acclaimed book The Republic. ... The allegory allows the author to establish an analogy, a comparison between two highly divergent subjects and remote from each other: the problem of knowledge and the lives of the dwellers of a cave. ... The first parallelism between the movie and Platos allegory can be seen in this convergence. ...

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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...

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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...

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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. ... They both also walked outside of the cave. "The Allegory of the Cave illustrates the road we must take from shadowy images to the true Ideas behind all natural phenomena- (Price 57). ... The freed prisoner, from the Allegory of the Cave, leaves the Cave and discovers the world of forms. ...

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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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