Plato's Cave and Matrix

Theory of Knowledge Prompt: Matrix – Plato’s Cave Comparison
The movie the Matrix and the picture of Plato’s cave share huge similarities, which could even possibly said that the matrix itself was based on Plato’s drawing of the cave. The cave which houses people tied to see only the front, and cant see anything else are only believing what they see on what seems to be a “movie” wall. The great fire being kindled behind them used to constantly trick them to make them believe only what possibly the authorities will want them to believe. These projections on the wall of a puppet show, constantly shown to the chained people, show how the human mind can be tricked into presuming that what they are currently seeing is the true reality in which they are living in.
The Matrix shares this theory of having people chained and only able to look at the projections in front of them and turn them into the reality that the victim is currently living in. Within the story presented by the movie, similarities between Plato’s cave and the movie itself can be seen, most obviously shown during the beginning, but the whole movie in its entirety of the virtual reality created by the computer system is the show that is being put on in the “cave”. These two pictures show that the mind can be tricked into believing that we see can be false, and there may be other truths lying out there that need to be discovered. But as well as being critical of what we see and what we believe, we should always try to create a 2nd mind set as a path that our mind can go down should it want to try to decipher another mystery and create another truth.