Comparing Plato's Allegory Of The Cave And The Matrix

The word, rhetoric has many origins. However it mainly came from the French word “rethorik” and the Latin word “rhetorice”. It was created by the Greek and Romans to persuade and teach others with reason. The French and other European countries began using it in the fourteenth century. Rhetoric then was a part of the Seven Liberal Arts and the Trivium to effectively use language to influence others. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, rhetoric even grew to be considered as a tradition and an art that should be studied more. So the word and the method of it continues to be used today.
Sometimes students confuse the word rhetoric with manipulation. They do seem to cross paths in their definition but they are completely different words. When using rhetoric it is more of a usage of language that acts more convincing with a list of reasons way a person should think or do something in a certain way. Meanwhile, manipulation is a more forceful term. One could use rhetoric to manipulate easier but by itself it only makes a person or thing do something without use of planned out language and reason.

Rhetorical manipulation used in the worst case scenario, can blind a person’s perceptive of reality. Two examples of this would be in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the Matrix. On the bright side, rhetorical manipulation can teach and influence others, like a lecture or speech. Most of the time, rhetoric is used to convince people to buy or use a product or used in politics to get elected. Which is neither good or evil, it is simplify just business. Either way how a person looks at the word, rhetoric is an extremely affective part of human