Synthesis

The two texts that I will synthesize are Plato's the Allegory of the Cave and the movie The Island. There are many similarities between these two texts. They are both about a person finding out that the world is completely different than what they were taught. In The Island the main character is a clone who escapes from the facility that he was created in. He ventures into the real world trying to figure out what is right and what is a lie. In The Allegory of the Cave the main character escapes from prison, which was in a cave. He discovers that everything he was taught was not the truth. He grew up in the cave and was taught through shadows on the cave wall. When he escapes he learns that everything is not shadows. In both stories the main characters return to their prison and try to inform the other prisoners. They can't go back to believing the lies they were told before their breakout.