People walked behind the wall holding up objects and talking to make the prisoners believe that the shadows were talking giving the prisoners a false sense of reality. Socrates then talks about an escaping prisoner who was forced to look behind the wall but struggled to believe what he was seeing and then returned to what he knew and was familiar with, the talking shadows. Socrates explains what would happen if someone dragged that prisoner out of the cave and allowed him to see the sun and everything around him. The prisoner would be blinded by it and take time to understand it, but he would come to terms with what he was seeing and be happier for it. The prisoner would see the real world and not the one someone invented. There are some similarities between “The Cave” and The Matrix. One similarity between the prisoner and Neo was the wonder and uncertainty in discovering the truth about false reality and true reality. The difference was that the prisoner's reality was made of shadows and Neo's reality was made up of a virtual super