The Value of Ignorance
The air you breath, the chair you’re sitting in, even the dreams you have are real as far as you know. Yet, imagine if it wasn’t. Imagine if everything in this world was a lie, not real, just a hallucination of sorts. It would be cruising knowing that everything that we’ve been taught is a lie. To make matters worse, there would be no way to go back and you could only dream of the blissful life that you once lead in a lie of a world. So is ignorance truly bliss? This is a question that both Plato and the Wachowski sibling try to answer in their respective works “Allegory Of The Cave” for Plato and The Matrix trilogy from the Wachowski siblings. In both works, they show us that the road to knowledge from ignorance is fraught with struggle yet does not end once you achieve …show more content…
It’s important to take into consideration the settings for each character as this is how they relate to our society as well as each other. In “Allegory of the Cave” we see “Human being living in a underground cave… here [prisoners] have been from their childhood, and have thir legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them… Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets.”( Plato 1-9). The cave that becomes the central setting for the story of “Allegory of the Cave” as well as the cause of conflict is a metaphor for an ignorant society. The chains that hold back the prisoners are not so much physical chains but their blind faith put into the hands of the society that they believe is doing everything for them and telling them not to worry. The puppets that are spoken of in this are false shows that the leaders of this oppressive society want the people to see,