Is the life we ​​live day to day real or are we stuck in a world where we are told what to do but don't really know? Or can we actually function on our own? While the puppeteers create images on the wall of a cave in the story "The Allegory of the Cave", the prisoners exclusively believe that this is the real world; they don't know that there is more to life than being chained to one spot staring into shadows your whole life. The Matrix, produced by Joel Silvers, follows the same narrative aspects of the reality of the world they live in day after day while playing a computer simulated game. While the two entertaining pieces depict multiple similarities, such as a world that is put before your eyes or that is controlled by others, each has distinct differences as to what is actually true in this so-called world. “The Allegory of the Cave” addresses a vision of modern constraints from people's daily lives. Plato describes how all the prisoners are chained by the legs and head forced to stare at the cave wall where they watch shadows cast and hear noises in which they believe "the truth would literally be nothing but the shadows of images" (Plato p2). The chains can represent the limitations resulting from today's daily life. There are so many regulations and rules given to us by the government that we really can't control our lives. The majority of the human race seems to believe that the government always makes the best decisions for the country. Other limitations resulting from chains include financial problems, illness, and lack of food for the family. Another quality exhibited is sunlight which represents truth. As a prisoner «turns his neck and walks and looks towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glass...... in the center of the paper......ve; however, they do not believe that there is another world out there and simply ignore the man who tries to tell them the real truth. Two different works are closely related as they contain many comparisons about whether the world we live in is true or not. If we look back at "The Allegory of the Cave" and The Matrix, the scripts share a wide variety of comparisons that people believe our daily lives are not controlled. On the opposite spectrum, one piece illustrates humans trapped in a cave to believe that all the shadows they saw were real; the other is a futuristic computer game that controls their lives. In any case, imagine living in a world where you are computer generated without knowing that there is more out there than control. What if you were stuck in one place from birth and unable to make any decisions until you died??