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The Matrix: The Allegory Of The Cave

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Upon the reading on the Synopsis: The Matrix (1999), it compares and contrast with the readings from Plato and Descartes in several ways. Neo in The Matrix felt that something was not right with his life. Neo had a choice to stay in the way of life he was familiar with or to find out the truth about life by taking a red pill. Neo took the pill, realizing that his life has been a lie all that time. “He experience fear, denial, and confusion, but eventually acceptance and then sadness. He realizes that all of his “life” had been a lie” (The Matrix, 1999). The world before Neo took the pill was the only world that he knew. Similar to the men Socrates describe in, The Allegory of the Cave by Plato (Liberty University, 2016). The only world they

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