In Plato

If real is what you can feel , smell , taste and see , then 'real ' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain (Keanu Reeves )Just as Morpheus in The Matrix said , what is reality ? What makes something real ? Is it is tangibility ? Or is it its ability to provide sensory experience ? If you consider something to be real because you can touch , see or smell it , then love , happiness , greed and the like are just illusions . The world is never just black and white . there is always a thin line that separates reality and

illusions of reality , A line so thin that it is often blurred by our own perceptions and no amount of clichys can describe how our lives has been a constant struggle between reality and illusion and which side do we choose for ourselves Countless of literary works have been dedicated to the illustration of such a theme , but now in a world where majority of the population have less time and attention to read , more and more great novels and stories have been adapted to the big screen . An example of such is Plato 's Allegory of the Cave and its adaptation in the 1999 box office hit The Matrix

Plato 's Allegory of the Cave depicts humanity 's flaw of accepting everything at face value and their inability to challenge the things around them . Plato liberates us from our selfish desire of constituting our own views of reality and illustrates how we are bounded by the...