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Essay / Compare and Contrast The Matrix and The Cave Allegory
Neo enters the real world with Trinity and the crew. Once they enter the real world, they board a ship called Nebuchadnezzar. The ship has all the computer systems that show what is happening in the matrix. In the vessel and in the matrix, “your body is the same to you and to others in both worlds” (Partridge 7). Unlike "The Allegory of the Cave" where your body looks like a shadow and then, once you reach enlightenment, you see "the reflections of men and other objects in the water, then the objects themselves themselves” (Allegory 286). Additionally, in The Matrix they have a computer program that lets them know how to do whatever they need to do. Like in the movie, Neo needed to learn how to fight, so they hooked him up to the computer and put that knowledge into his brain. Unlike The Matrix, “The Allegory of the Cave” has chained people who must find their own way to the real world. After that, they must learn to see the different light by getting used to it. Chained people don't have a computer connected to them to suddenly get used to light or new methods, they have to figure it out on their own. However, the characters in the two stories are portrayed in different ways.