Fantasy and Reality

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This paper explains that both stories, Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and the film "Matrix", illustrate the difference between what is fantasy and what is reality. The author points out that both "Allegory of the Cave" and the "Matrix" center on Plato's four types of thinking: Fantasy, trust and public opinion, scientific and mathematical thinking and dialectic thinking. The paper concludes that "Allegory of the Cave" and "Matrix" present the same type of scenario and thinking, ending with the lesson: The matrix and believing or seeing beyond the obvious is our true reality.

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"In 'The Matrix', Neo and the prisoner in the cave share similar characteristics. Neo has tubes and wires connected to his entire body, just as the prisoner does while in the cave, which prevents him from being free to do or see what he wants. When Neo is brought out of the pod of fluid and taken to Morpheus, Neo complains because he cannot see. Morpheus explains to Neo that the reason Neo cannot see is because he has never used his eyes. I think this represents the prisoners in the cave that have been there since their youth. Additionally, whatever Neo is taught will seem to be the right way or truth just as the prisoners believe that the images on the wall are right because that is the only way of life that the prisoners know."

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