“The Allegory of the cave”

Plato writes in his article about prisoners in a dark cave who are chained and can not move their limbs. The only thing they see is shadows from the puppets of different various animals and plants. They view the shadows real than the puppets, and when one of the puppets speaks the prisoners believe that the words are coming from the shadows. The prisoners dislike those who can not name each shadow as quickly as they can. When the prisoner is released into the sunlight he will see the shapes passing by and he will see it less real than their shadows. He will see that the “sun is the cause of all the things that he has seen’’ (plato-wikipidea). The prisoners would not want to be freed because if to go back to the cave he would have to accustom his eyes to see the darkness. And he will not be able to name the shadows as quick as his other fellow members. The prisoners are the humans, the cave is the matrix, and the sunlight is Zion. The puppets are the agents who make the shadows to have the prisoners/humans lock in their positions so they don’t see the reality and the truth. The prisoners are chained in the cave and they can not move their limbs, so too the humans are in the cave of matrix that are like the slave that can not small or taste. The escape prisoner who sees the sun is like Neo who escapes the world of matrix to see the truth by taking the red pill. Neo sees the sun and his eyes start to hurt him, and that’s because he has never used them properly since he only saw a false reality which in his mind he thought was real. The prisoner never used his eyes to see the truth, and once he did his eyes started to hurt him and thus he wanted to go back, but Neo continues into the sunlight unlike the prisoner who wants to go back. The free man who decided to return to the cave was Cypher he wanted to return to the world of matrix, since he felt it was better to be living a life of slavery than to be a free man of decisions and choices. A slave can not think for himself a higher being has to think for him so too the agents/machines wanted to control the human race. In the world of the sun you see reality and thus you have a mass amount of knowledge and your mind starts to understand the truth. Some humans It’s hard to make the change you rather have what you were accustom to, so like the prisoner you go back to the cave. Neo also thought the cave was true reality however when he left the cave and saw the sunlight he understood that the cave was evil only to control your thinking and understanding.