Similarities Between The Truman Show And The Allegory Of The Cave

Imagery is a common approach used by authors to get the purpose across to their audience by engaging them into the story. In both The Truman Show and The Allegory of the Cave the imagery is key to get the purpose across, in both of the cases the imagery was similar in the sense that the audience has to use their imagination to help them guide themselves through the stories. To start off with, in The Allegory of the Cave, the readers have to get a good understanding of what is happening, such as the understanding of the three prisoners in a cave chained up. Plato does not provide the readers with the background information to help them understand the story better which makes readers use their imaginations more than their brains. In comparison,

The real truth was part of both the stories, in The Allegory of the Cave, the truth was hidden from the prisoners since they were born this was done by holding them back by using chains so they cannot see the rest of the world. After one of the prisoners was allowed to leave by finally being free from the chains he found the truth very hurtful to himself. Likewise, in the story of The Truman Show, Truman was also hidden from the truth, similar to the prisoners, Truman was also not allowed to see the truth from the moment he was born. Truman was forced to be in a controlled world, without a choice, and was not allowed to leave it, Truman did not know he was living in this world, until he finally got the chance to escape, and similarly to the prisoner, he was also hurt by finding out the truth as he had to go through so much to get to the end of it. The audience in the real world, have not ever been held back from such a truth such as their life was actually a lie, therefore the audience has to use their minds to help them since past experience does not help them and using imagination they can understand the book