Plato's Cave and Mine

Plato's Cave

Plato made an allegory to a Cave to represent the human condition and how he opens his eyes to his true purpose. 

At first there are two different groups of humans; the People and the Prisoners. The Prisoners are all the way in the back of Cave and they can't see the light coming from the opening. There is a fire that the People make shadow puppets with, and that is the only thing the Prisoners can see. By Prisoner Plato mean humans that are going through a struggle or hard times that they can't find a way out of. The People are still going through the struggle and is still in the Cave of lies and deceit but they are close to getting over it. 

When the person comes out of being a Prisoner he sees that the shadows are just statues and figurines of ignorance. Once he knows that the illusions that he was looking at weren't reality he starts to get over the hardship in his life to become a People. Then he makes it out of the Cave and into the sunlight.

The Sun is reality, a reality that the former Prisoner didn't expect. But once he sees this he can't go back to not knowing what the world is really like, so he has to adjust to his new life in the enlightenment period and go fully through the process of getting over his struggle.

My Cave

The Truman Show

In the Truman Show, Truman has lived his whole life as a lie, but he doesn't know about it. His whole life is a reality TV show but he doesn't even know about it. His friend since he was 7 is an actor, his wife for a while is an actress. The town that he lives in is the biggest film studio in the world because it's all fake. Descartes said, in a nutshell, that life was a game of deceit that God or a genius or a demon was playing on him, that nothing in his life was real. The deceiver/s in the Truman Show is/are the director for making Truman go through with this since he was born without any say in the matter, and the actors and actress in Truman's life that go through with lying to him about his life.

Truman

Throughout this whole lie he is forced to live, the one thing Truman can actually depend on being true and genuine is his own existence. Descartes says that "Then without doubt I exist also if he deceives me, and let him deceive me as much as he will, he can never cause me to be nothing so long as I think that I am something." Connecting back to Truman the quote means that even though Christof made his life a whole lie he wasn't able to fully deceive him because Truman thought he was real and that is all that mattered.