The Matrix and the CaveThere are many similarities between The Matrix and Plato's “Allegory of the Cave”. “The Allegory of the Cave” features cave prisoners who are unable to move and can only see what is happening above their cave. There is a prisoner who is released (Plato, circa 380 BC). The Matrix has humans trapped inside the matrix. (Silver Pictures and Wachowski Brothers, 1999). The main character is Neo. Neo represents the prisoner of Plato's cave released. Neo woke up to a reality that wasn't easy to understand. He woke up to find that there were other humans who were fixed and unable to move by electronic cords, and that what he had thought he was seeing during his life was this which had been programmed by a computer simulation. The similarities between these are based on the perception of reality. The differences between The Matrix and "The Allegory of the Cave" are seen in several ways. The Matrix aims to free everyone. Freedom in “The Allegory of the Cave” seems to be freeing only the one who has been freed. In The Matrix, the resistance...