Blog # 6 SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TRUMAN SHOW AND THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE.

What are the similarities and differences between The Truman Show and Plato's  Allegory of the Cave?
In my opinion there is just one very important similarity between the principal character of the movie: "The Truman Show",Truman Burbank, and the principal character of  "The Allegory of the Cave", the prisioner.   Both of them had spent their whole lives in another world, a very different place.  As different as the Sun is to Moon.    In the beginning they couldn't even imagine that there was another life full of new experiences to live, like love, happiness, sadness, knowledge, all aspects of life that people in another situation can live out there in the real world.
On the other hand, speaking of differences; in The Truman Show, Truman Burbank, (after Christoff's intervention) was aware of what he was going to find after leaving his old life behind, and he knew what he was looking for. Unlike Truman, the prisoner in Socrates' fable didn't even imagine how the people or things on the outside world were going to look like, he did not even think about how his body was going to respond to the physical changes that he would have to encounter, for example the change of environment might change vision (due to being in a cave and never seeing the light), posture (from bending down because of the heavy chains), basically every thing would change, having adapted to life in a cave, the prisoner did not know what to expect.