Similarities Between The Truman Show And The Allegory Of The Cave

The Truman Show and The Allegory of The Cave: Seeking Reality

In the Republic, Plato uses the Allegory of the Cave to express the claim that people only look at what is presented in the physical world that they live in as reality, when in fact it is more than that. This concern was expressed in the movie The Truman Show, where Truman Burbank, the movie’s protagonist, is living in a world where he believes is the reality, but eventually discovers that its reality is distorted. The Allegory of the Cave and The Truman Show shares similarities in their story, where both are trying to convey the message that we accept the realities of the world that we live in at its face value, without knowing that some of those realities are distorted, and we

In the beginning of the movie, the Truman Show makes parallels with Plato’s Allegory of the Way in the way that both Truman and the prisoners are living in a distorted reality in the world around them without being aware that it is the case, and both conveys the message that fixating on what is just the physical world around us will result in a warped experience with true reality. In The Truman Show, Truman was adopted by a television at birth, and throughout the years, his live was being documented by cameras and aired on television live without him realizing. The town Truman lives in, Seahaven, is actually a giant television studio used for filming the show, and that he was tricked into believing that the world he live in is real the world time, where all his friends and family members are actually actors. With the staged death of Truman’s father in a boating accident, Christof, the director of the show, was able traumatize Truman so that his fear of water will prevent him from leaving Seahaven, which is surrounded by water. Truman’s situation is similar to the prisoners’ situation in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, where the

Truman eventually decides to escape Seahaven by facing his fear of water and sail into the ocean, in which he is even able to withstand the storm set of by Christof to stop him, and this results in Truman reaching the wall of the giant television stage, with him realizing that throughout the years he is being trapped inside a world that is not real. On the other hand, the prisoner who got out of the cave and into the real world at first was not able to look directly at the sun without pain, so he can only look at the objects that the sun casts its light on, but eventually he is getting accustomed to the light and he is able to look at the sun, and