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The Truman Show Related To Plato's Allegory Of The Cave

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Over the years, philosophers have used critical thinking to question the very idea of reality. The questions about reality posed by Plato in his Allegory of the cave have been the base of several modern day stories and movies. The Truman Show is heavily based off of Plato’s Allegory of the cave. Truman himself can be related to the prisoner who manages to escape the cave. Truman’s similarities to the prisoner can be seen through their lives lived in a false reality and through the symbols that hold them in reality.
Firstly, Truman and the prisoner are alike because they both live out most of their lives in a false reality created for them. For Truman all he knows as truth is the massive studio walls that have surrounded him his whole life.
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