... other great Sci-Fi films of the late 20th century. Only after viewing this film several times and focusing solely on the text and not the graphics, the viewer may recognize the depth of the script and the many philosophical concepts throughout. 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. He begins ... ...

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... other great Sci-Fi films of the late 20th century. Only after viewing this film several times and focusing solely on the text and not the graphics, the viewer may recognize the depth of the script and the many philosophical concepts throughout. 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. He begins ... ...

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... . 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 aim of this paper is to explore the analogies found between the text aforementioned and The Matrix, and analyze the meaning of the elements present in both works. Body In ancient Greece, Platos endeavor has been to support ... of them. There are also echoes off the shadowed wall of sounds the people walking on the road sometimes make, which the prisoners falsely believe are caused by the shadows (Plato). In the ...

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... was another world out there, besides the shadows reflected on the wall. Neo is a computer hacker in the real world. He is taken out of this real world and into the Matrix, where he learns the Matrix is a computer simulation. Neo discovers that he has been a prisoner, stuck in a container, his whole life. Neo resembles the ex-prisoner in Plato's Republic because for one they are both prisoners ... 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-...

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... to this knowledge, just as we don't know how there came to be a first freed prisoner in Plato's cave analogy, but Neo would not have known the differences between the two worlds were it not for Morpheus and his crew teaching him. Though knowing the difference between the two worlds requires a teacher, Neo, Trinity, and others were open to such teaching because they had paid ... . That cord doesn't so much nourish, as program; and not just program some general framework in terms of which the world will be approached, but the world itself. The Platonic allusion is unmistakable; we cannot b...

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