acters, i.e., Neo and prisoners of the cave have been presented with their current reality by birth and they have only learned to live in that. They think that cave is the real world and continue to live in it, just like we think our world is the reality because we see and live through it. Whereas Neo is chained to a massive wall where machines use his body heat to power themselves, the prisoners are chained in a virtual state where they are mentally bound, giving them a false hope of being free. Both characters are like slaves, one is helpless and is taken to a different world, the prisoners are imprisoned and they have accepted that as a reality. Morpheus even tells Neo, “ You are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind”.

The difference between Neo and prisoners is that men are set free by the people controlling them and when they see the real reality they are surprised and take time to adjust to it. Neo himself begins to question his own reality without even knowing there was an alternate reality. He chooses the true reality and returns to help those who have been deceived like him since childhood.

On the other hand, Descartes evil demon is vividly realized in the Matrix films as the artificial intelligence that forces a virtual reality on humans. Both begin to question the current reality, for Descartes, the sensations in his dreams were vivid enough to convince him the dreams were real, the humans who are pulled into the Matrix have no idea that their sensations are false, created artificially instead of arising from actual experiences. They are both plagued by a dream state reality. For Neo, it was controlled by a super computer and for Descartes by his perception of evil demons. But in both the cases, their current sense cannot be trusted. Descartes stated, “perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep”. This statement matches with what Neo felt since he could not differentiate between dream and reality. There is a point where he asks Morpheus i