Allegory of the cave is translated to the Myth of the Cave. The allegory is one of the greek philospher Plato most well known works. Later socrates interpreted into different volumes it was mention it Vol. 7. Socrates himself interprets the allegory (beginning at 517b): "This image then [the allegory of the cave] we must apply as a whole to all that has been said. (wikipedia). the allegory is where humans are depicted as being imprisoned by their bodies and what they preceive by sight only. in the allegory of the cave, plato tells what would happen if people were to become enlighten by philosophy? the allegory of the cave is about a man being chain in a cave where he watches the shadow on the wall. plato was trying to represent the metaphor for the state of human existence. this connects with the matrix because there was another world known as "the real world" in the matrix. in the matrix there was another world where they battle and they try to find the one by letting him choose what side he wanted by showing him. just like in plato work he triesto tell human that there is another world that we are scared of the truth.