Although Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" was written centuries ago, the allegory's main themes and concepts are still evident in the modern film, The Matrix. Plato's allegory discusses and analyzes a story by Socrates, which depicts a group of men who are having their minds controlled while living in captivity in a cave. In The Matrix, the world is reduced to a place where machines have enslaved mankind by holding the body of each person in a pod (for the purpose of extracting electrical energy from their bodies) and controlling their minds by connecting their brains to The Matrix.
             The plot in the movie, The Matrix echoes the "Allegory of the Cave", in some significant ways. Both the Matrix and the "Allegory of the Cave" deal with people that are subjected to thought control. In both cases, the controlled subjects have no choice of whether or not to accept these images that are constantly appearing in front of them, because they have been physically restrained since birth. The shadows presented on the walls in the cave have the same effect on the human brain as does the matrix. The shadows are designed to manipulate the viewer's perception of life, forcing the subject to believe in a false reality. The humans' body position stays in an everlasting position facing directly at a wall, meanwhile shadows are continuously appearing, resembling a movie screen or a puppet show. In the movie, the matrix was created as an artificial dream world to permanently occupy the human mind, while the machines enslave the people in order to obtain the electric power generated by the human body.
             The question of "what will happen if someone is freed" is discussed at the end of the Allegory of the Cave, and is seen in the Matrix, and they both tell us the same thing about the human condition. In The Matrix, there is a whole scene dedicated to the part when Neo is told the truth about the real world, and how he has been living in a dream world hi...