Plato's Allegory

"The Best Place On Earth," this newspaper article explains that Seahaven (Trumans' home) should be the only place to live. All this wants to do is lure Truman to stay in Seahaven, this article is right after his call to Fiji. "Who Needs Europe," while this article means basically the same as the first, it just goes into more detail by specifying Europe as the place not to go to. "Crack Down On Homeless," when we first see Trumans' dad he is portrayed as a homeless man, but he is not supposed to be back on the set. This now causes a dilemma for Christof, so he makes it seem like the homeless are terrible people.

2. Robert Castle is very correct when he says Truman can not find his true self, and he can not do this because he is living

Christofs' quote: "We accept the reality of the world with which we were presented," is absolutely related to Platos' The Allegory Of The Cave. First off in Platos' reasoning, the three prisoners had never seen the outside world. Then one of them was set free, but when he came back to relay all the messages and details, the other two could not understand him. They still believed that the only thing in the world was that cave wall, the fire, the shadows, and the voices. But the video specifically states: "...this will not make the world outside the cave any less real." How can those prisoners that weren't set free understand this, I bet it is the same way Truman felt when he figured out that his world was fake. Before then for those 10910 days on air no knowing anything, how could he believe that there was a world beyond Seahaven? He simply could not, if this was to happen today and somehow the actor/actress escaped, they may go crazy, it would be such a hard transition from what we think is true to what reality shows us to be true. Reality is not the easiest thing to comprehend, it is a thing where if you do not know about it or do not believe it, you will, in a big way too. Reality can ruin lives, it isn't just a, "Oh no, my washer broke now i will wear dirty clothes," it can be more of a "You just stole that car, that will be a lifetime in jail." If Truman can comprehend the reality of a new world then he will be fine, but he is facing a super harsh reality

Truman in this movie is not an actor, he is just a normal human being trying to be living in a normal world with a normal life. Although we as the watchers know that none of that is true. "Television, with insatiable hunger for material, has made celebrities into content," this is a quote that can explain very well to what happened to Truman. First he was taken as a baby, adopted by an organization, and never knew who he truly was. Christof had created a celebrity no doubt, but can Truman really be a celebrity without truly knowing what he us doing. Everyone around the world watches Trumans' every move, it is safe to say that when they do not watch the show, they become very hungry for more info. The one word in that quote that really sticks out is insatiable, it means impossible to please. In the quotes context it is saying a hunger that is impossible to overcome. These watchers from everywhere very rarely turn off the show because they want more, they are hungry for more, and they will always want more until the show is at its end, and then they could still want more. The Truman Show, is a prime example of how that quote written by Roger Ebert can be so powerful, the movie and the quote were both released in the same year. This quote was written for The Truman Show, it is to show us that one day technology will ultimately prevail and we will have this insatiable hunger for more and more, until there is no more