Allegory of the Cave
In the Allegory of the Cave Plato argues for enlightenment, but he also presents why choosing enlightenment can be dangerous and painful. The people who live in the cave believe that what they see is reality. Plato explains, that when a person is taken out of the cave that they will be "pained and irritated." Normally when some one is in pain they try and stop the pain in any way they no how whatever the cost is. The sun in this case is the source of the pain. When the man is being taken out of the cave he first sees the fire, when he looks at this fire “his eyes ache, so that he would try to escape and turn back to the things he could see distinctly” (Plato, 229) Now imagine the sun, it must be a million times brighter than a fire, the pain must have been unbearable. A normal person would run back into the cave trying to escape the pain. What sets this man apart from the normal man, why does he not run back into the cave, to the safety and security of his happy cave life? After the man has looked around and seen how muc
In the movie, The Matrix, similar things face Neo, "the one." He is given the choice “take the blue pill and you will wake up in the morning, with no memory of any of this, but take the red pill and you have a ticket to wonderland.”(The Matrix) The man takes the red pill, and leaves the cave. When he first enters the real world and attempts to use his eyes, light temporarily blinds him; his muscles ache when he attempts to use them. Neo felt fine in the world he knew as true, but the crew of the Nebecunezzar had to pull him into their world, what they believe to be the real world. The crew lives with the perpetual fear that they will be caught and killed because they are showing people the truth about whom or what controls the world. The people in the cave did not want to leave the cave, and go to this new real world. If you were to ask most people blue pill or red pill, almost all would take the red pill. This is because the concept of a new world layered over this one (or this world being layered over the other one) i
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