Most of the time things are not what they’re seem to be in this world. Sometimes people think somethings are perfect or true when in reality that thing might not be so perfect at all and false and whatever they were thinking about it was or it is just an illusion. Whenever you realize that you have been lied too and you were living under this illusion you feel disappointed at yourself, because you feel like you’ve been lied to your whole life, living under this false illusion.“The Matrix” and “Plato’s Allegory of the cave” are two perfect resources to get my idea across and talk about how bad or good people feel after finding out the truth.
“The Matrix” is a movie where humans brains are controlled by computers it make them believe they live in a real world where actually they live in the matrix a fake world that looks like the real world. In reality their brains are connected to computers and the computers make them feel like everything they’re doing is real. Neo is kind of like the main character of the movie and he always had the feeling that he was living in ‘a dream inside a dream”. Neo is then approached by this group of people who make him choose between knowing the real world or stay in the matrix, he then chooses to know the real world “Reality”. After Neo is shown the true world and the illusion that he has been living under it was all a lie by the leader of the group named “Morpheous”, at first he can’t believe it and it takes him a while to get himself back together. At the end of the movie Neo learns how to decode the matrix and now he knows that everything is possible in the matrix.
In “Plato’s Allegory of the cave” Prisoners are chained in a cave for their whole entire lives with only a light up fire behind them and all they can see is the shadow of the people crossing by. Prisoners will often live under an illusion of what they believe how the world was outside the cave. They have never been able to step out of the cave and see the out side world. If one of the prisoners was to be set free he will then see he has been wrong about how the outside world looks like and that reality was better than what he imagined. If the prisoner who was set free tried to tell the other prisoner what he saw outside the cave they would ignore him because they prefer to live under the illusion that they have in their minds.
Neo was living in this imaginary like world where everything is not what it seems its just machines making your brain believe that you’re really doing whatever is it that you’re doing. He then realized that this world where he has been living his whole entire life was called “The Matrix” a world dominated by only illusions. The prisoners will spend their whole lives in the cave believing in something that not even them knew if what they believed in was real. After Neo realized the truth and saw the reality world it took him sometime to get used to it and so did the prisoners if they ever get set free from the cave. Neo thought that it was better to get to know the reality of the situation than keep on living in the matrix unlike the prisoners who never get to get out of the cave and stay living under one illusion their whole entire lives.
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