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This 5 page paper compares Plato's Allegory of the Cave to the movie, The Matrix. Emphasis is placed on the question: Do noble likes enchain the soul? Specific examples given from The Matrix and Plato's Cave. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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that this movie has touched upon some universal truth that most have never considered? In the movie, Matrix, Morpheus offers Neo an option: take the blue pill and nothing changes.
But, he teases, "take the red pill and you get to stay in Wonderland and see how far the rabbit hole goes"(Matrix 101, 2003, see also Film Scouts, 2003). The
Matrix opened up a very large philosophical door that many have decided to walk through. In doing so, they have discovered what Plato called, Noble Lies. Platos question, just as
Morpheus question, is this: Do noble lies chain the soul, or do they free it? The question really is restated again by Cypher later on in the movie: If it
were possible to know the answer to that question, would you really want to hear the truth? Cypher spends most of the movie regretting the loss of his illusions while
under the control of The Matrix. In many ways Plato also discussed this same concept in his classic, The Myth of the Cave. In the dark recess of this
cave there are a group of people chained together. Their line of sight is limited and they cannot see one another. This is comparable to The Matrix, as well. Each
human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is
shadows on the side of the cave wall. Such prisoners would mistake appearance for reality. They would think the things they see on the wall (the shadows) were real; they
would know nothing of the real causes of the shadows(Cohen, 2003). "To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images"(Plato, Book VII,
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