Allegory Of The Cave

Allegory of The Cave was an experiment for higher education. This experiment consisted of immbolized adolescents and their heads gazed to the walls. Behind the children there was a fire and a handful of animals that Plato used to cast as shadows. The whole point of why this experiment was conducted, was to see if these non-freed persons would realize that what they were looking at was not real. There are some similarities between Plato's experiment and the Matrix. Both the Matrix and Allegory are an illusion to the human eye. When a prisoner was freed from the cave and exposed to the truth he became blind. The reason why the prisoner became blind was due to the fact that he was removed from the the darkness and was shown to sunlight. His eye's could not adjust to the drastic change of the removal from the dark. In the first Matrix Neo is freed from the matrix, which too is a cover up of the truth. However the end result of Neo discovering the truth was not becoming blind, but that his eyes had hurt because he had never used them before. Another connection between the two is that Machine's used Humans as a source of power. While on the other hand Humans used Humans to conduct an experiment for education.