12) The Truman Show and Plato's Allegory Cave

In the social science fiction of The Truman Show by Peter Weir, Truman Burbank is an salesman who discovers his entire life is actually a TV show. The Truman Show is about a man lost in a false reality of illusory happiness. Truman begins in a very peaceful paradise of safety and comfort in which he is at one with his world and accepts everything as given. Then he realizes that he is being watched and sets out to sail. He fights off the storm bravely depict being tossed around and almost drowned. At the end, he reaches the open door that will lead him into a bland, new world unlike his own. His creator, Christof, tells him it is safe inside but he has the urge to live outside the world he is given. He rejects the fake reality of his world and takes a step out the dome so he will have a chance at an authentic, although a more difficult, life.

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Something to think about 

Like in Plato's allegory cave, Truman could be said to be the prisoner that escaped the cave and reached enlightenment. The water not only symbolizes the chain that is preventing Truman from escaping the guards but maybe also the fear of the world beyond the cave. The fear of water that is instilled in Truman keeps him locked in a false self. It keeps him trapped on the island and away from the world outside. Lastly, Christof is the guard that is keeping an eye on the prisoners from Plato's cave. He created a false sense of reality and tried everything to keep him there.