Plato's Cave and the Matrix

The article, Plato's Cave and The Matrix, explains that there are many strong similarities in the themes of both the stories. For example, the theme of care of the soul in The Matrix and Plato's thought in the Republic. The Matrix abd Plato's cave both believe that proper teaching only happens when the students are ready to make discoveries for themselves. Plato believes that to fully know the for of an object, one must know the form of the good. Plato believes that speaking and thinking in the cave is not meaningless, and some of our opinions are true, in spite of our ignorance of the deeper causes of things. In the Matrix the two worlds are nto very similar. The one contiuous aspect of the worlds is the people's bodies. Plato and the Matrix tell roughly the same story of how the unreliability of the senses and the need to abstract form the knowledge. Neo and Plato's freed prisoner are alike in the way of questioning the world and both disregard knowledge derived from the senses, The stories both have much in common, with the story line as well as the characters.