Plato's Allegory of the Cave/The Matrix

Match-up Worksheet

Find elements in "The Matrix" that are analogous to these elements in Plato's "The Myth of the Cave":

Possible answers include:

Neo, Cypher, people stuck in the Matrix, the Matrix, the Agents, the Machines, the Real World

Plato's Myth/Allegory of the Cave The Matrix

The prisoners in the cave

The shadows on the wall

The prison 'guards'

The escaped prisoner

The fire producing the shadows

The world outside the cave

How the escaped prisoner can't see well when

he moves out of the cave into the real world

How the escaped prisoner goes back into the

cave to free the others

A prisoner who refuses to listen to the escaped

prisoner
(tries to hurt him; wants to remain in the cave)