A Comparison Of Intertextuality In The Matrix And The Matrix

A background into the first film Matewan, tells the story of an incident in the struggle to unionize the Mingo County in the West Virginia coalfield. The film begins underground with a coalface being blown and the news is passed round that the Stone Mountain Company has imposed a wage cut. Joe Kenehan, the protagonist is a union organizer on his way to Matewan by train (Sayles, Renzi, & Rajski, 1987). The Matrix on the other hand depicts a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality called "the Matrix", created by conscious machines to moderate the human population. Neo, the protagonist in Matrix, takes the 'red pill' and is reborn into the reality of Earth 2199, where he learns about the exploitation of humans (Wachowski et al., 1999).

Thesis: There are many similarities in the Matrix ( Wachowski, Andy, and Lana Wachowski 1999 ), The Allegory of the Cave ( Plato ) and Meditation I of The Things of Which We May Doubt ( Decartes, 1641 ). It appears as you take a close look at the Matrix that it is a retelling of “The Allegory of the Cave” with elements of “Meditation I of the Things of Which We May Doubt” in it as well.

In Plato's Cave, the prisoners are tied down with chains, hand, and foot under bondage. In fact they have been there since their childhood, which much like matrix people are seen as in reality being bound within a pad whereby they are feed images/illusions which keep them in a dreamlike state and they have been in this bondage by virtue of the virtual reality pads in the fields since their youth and like the allegory of the Cave they are completely unaware of such a predicament since in regards to the Cave they have become conditioned to the shadows that dance upon the wall and do not see the true forms of which the shadow is a mere non-substantial pattern of. In the Matrix, within the person of the virtual world, it is a non-substantial pattern of the world, it is reflective of the real world, it is a shadow in its form and nature being a simulation of the world at a particular point in history. Like the prisoners in the cave, those who are prisoners in the system of a matrix are held in their calm state by reason of the illusion that stimulates them and tricks them into remaining asleep or rather into being ignorant of the fact that they are prisoners in pads so the machines can feed on their bio-energy. The shadows on the wall which are reflective is to keep the prisoners on the Cave unaware of the fact that they are prisoners, that they are under bondage and have never truly seen life outside of the Cave. The shadows on the walls are by puppets, perchance puppeteers. They could be seen as the agents, whom within the Matrix being programs are to maintain that the humans asleep in the matrix remain in their comatose state, they are to support the illusion, by keeping man actively ignorant of what is truly happening, so they never wake up. The puppeteers of the puppets which are seen on the wall to keep the mind of the prisoners stimulated so they never realize that they are chained, and only have a vision that is straightforward, which is basically saying their minds are only subjected to a single perspective and they are blind to the degree of seeing within other perspectives, broader perspectives and this in and of itself is a limitation.

Limited Knowledge, truth (or revelation), reality, and idealism are some of the common themes expressed in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the film “The Truman Show.” The differences can be found in the way Plato allows some of the prisoners to remain unknowing, by giving them an almost fear-like stance involving the truth of their world, and how to free themselves. Another is that the “false” world is created on different premises, either to create a safe an ideal environment, or merely to only allow the characters to think their world is ideal (both treat those involved like a science experiment). Both of these stories, however, have a similar plot in that they keep the subjects having very limited

The premise of Intertextuality, as explained in "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" by Thomas C. Foster, is that 'anything you write is connected to other written things' (page 197, HTRLLAP). Using 'allusions and references and parallels' (page 31, HTRLLAP), all written works can be connected to another, rather it be poems, novels, movies, plays, etc. This is definitely true for Paulo Coelho's book "The Alchemist." Just one of the many intertexutual comparisons that can be made is with the book "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe. In "Things Fall Apart," the main character Okonkwo has a large fear of failure, one that the main character of "The Alchemist" Santiago shares. When the Alchemist forces Santiago to try to turn himself into

The Matrix itself is very comparable to the cave because both are prisons of false reality. Humans are trapped and manipulated by their surroundings.Their senses are tricked and they can 't recognize the truth. In the Allegory of the Cave, “people have been in this dwelling since childhood, shackled by the legs and neck. Thus they stay in the same place so that there is only one thing for them to look that: whatever they encounter in front of their faces. But because they are shackled, they are unable to turn their heads around.” Just like the prisoners, Neo is chained to a bunch of machines who blind him from the real world. In the film, Morpheus says: “Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, kept inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind”. Neither the prisoners or the people living in the Matrix know they are trapped. They are unaware anything exists beyond their

In The Matrix the puppet-handlers and the machines spawned from a singular consciousness called A.I. (artificial intelligence). In both The Matrix and "Allegory of the Cave," the puppeteers have created artificial surroundings as a way to control and operate the information the prisoners receive. Plato also stated that eventually one of the more intellectual prisoners would break free from the cave and into the outside world.

Intertextuality is everywhere. Many texts, whether as a book or a movie, has a “connection” with each other. During class, we discussed many times on how one book relates to another. But what does all this work done in class have to do with anything in life or one’s future? A person may not know it, but the truth is, all these efforts are extremely helpful in one’s life. If they can make compare texts and see their association with one another, then he or she can make lots more assumptions on other various writings. This can be helpful if the person wants to understand the compositions that they are reading. As I was reading, I noticed that the writings shared a lot of the same perspectives and themes. These include the topics of vampirism,

This is comparison to the essay when Plato quotes “ Will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away?” (Plato 285). This is simply a comparison of words. When the prisoners from the cave come out and experience a new world, their eyes will hurt because they have never seen outside the shadows on the wall. Neo experiences a new world and his eyes hurt because he's never used them before. Many quotes from “The Allegory of the Cave” were used in the movie The Matrix. This is one of the many comparisons between “The Allegory of the Cave” and The

The similarities between The Cave and The Matrix are too uncanny. The description of the cave above, which is discussed in the first paragraph of Plato’s seventh book, can be portrayed similarly in

Intertextuality is the ongoing interaction between poems or stories. Romeo and Juliet, and the Titanic are two examples

In “The Allegory of the Cave”, the focus is based on prisoners who are chained up in a cave and can only see the shadows of the real world. In this story one prisoner is released into the “real world” and tries to enlighten the other prisoners. In The Matrix, the main character Neo is living in a world controlled by a computer program and he does not know. He is brought into the real world by people that have been enlightened and he plans to help the other people. Even though The Matrix and “The Allegory of the Cave are set in different points in time and show some different points of view , they also have comparable plots, characters, and symbols.

To understand the analysis of the matrix in this essay, the major characters will be introduced. First is the character of Neo, the anagram of Neo is ‘One’. He is said to be leading double lives, one as Neo, a computer hacker and the other as Thomas Anderson a computer-programmer. Referring back to the bible, Thomas was regarded as the doubting one, while Anderson means ‘son of man’, as Jesus was referred to during his earthly ministry. He later turned out to resist the matrix and save the human race from ignorance.

To begin with, "The Allegory of the Cave" is a parable written by the Greek Philosopher Plato. This theory essentially explains how people are blinded by a number of factors such as morals, beliefs and rules that are accepted without question. These blinded people tend to only see the surface of the situations surrounding them, and do not care to look deeper. They are known in "The Allegory of the Cave" as the prisoners. They are the members of society, which do not tend to change and/or are close-minded. On the contrary, there is always someone in each social system who is different. Someone who either questions or does not always accept the norm. According to "The Allegory of the Cave", this person is the enlightened one. The enlightened one constantly tries to help others or "free" them in order to let them see the world the way that they do. The final aspect to this parable is the cave. The cave represents

Deception is the foundational issue prevalent in The Matrix, Plato’s allegory of the cave, and Rene Descartes meditations. In each of these excerpts the goal of answering the question of what is real and how to uncover the truth is essential. Another question that arises throughout all three excerpts is whether or not the individuals will be able to handle the truth when it is finally learnt. In The Matrix Morpheus reveals to Neo that the life he had previously accepted as an absolute reality is really a virtual reality that is manipulated by a computer which is essentially controlling the mind of every individual as they lie unconscious connected to this