Caving Reports
How do you compare THE MATRIX to THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE by Plato?
I have a homework assignment in my Semiotics Class due this Monday and I have to compare THE MATRIX to THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE by Plato. We watched a scene from THE MATRIX which was a bit similar to THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE. I asked this question once, and it was reported and that I didn’t get an answer.
Please tell me what you know.
Hello… Do you live in buffalo too??
anyway, as a fan of plato and the matrix i feel i can help you out on this one..
In the matrix, a world which is not at all what it seems, People refuse to accept the truth, the turth being that they are in a controlled world where nothing is real.
PLato argues that life is irnoic becuase in our quest to find “truth” all we see is shdows… Shadows being us.
The thought is that thier is no objective truth… everyone’s perception is differnt. Like the the Children in the cave. They were chaned.. they thought what they were told was a tree was acultey a tree until they went out side to see that it really wasent. and even then no one belived the person who was saying it was not acultey a tree…
going back to the Matrix, no one wants to belive that thier “reality” is not real…that they are in fact being controlled by computers…
Sorry if i didnt help you out! it’s a bit confusing
Also this is really important…. They saw shadows because teh light represents truth… when they looked for it (the light) and they saw was shadows ( the truth)… In essence they are getting in the way of finding it
Odd engraving found in local cave