Neo And The Matrix

The Matrix is the war between man and machine, and the possibility that reality is a deception. In a sense, the Matrix is a constant struggle of identity and reality. This struggle of identity and reality is based around the character of Thomas Anderson, an ordinary person living a mundane life.

Orpheus’ story is still read and studied around the world to tell us to not make the same mistakes he did. The moral of his story can apply to all of us in the real world today. For this reason, his story will always be studied and stay

He demonstrates how there are uncontrollable events that need to just be accepted and persevered

In the piece Tu Se' Morta this idea can be heard from the very first notes. After being told of Eurydice's death, Orpheus declares his emotions in Tu Se' Morta. The piece begins an organ and a bass lute, the lute representing Orpheus' harp, which speak to the song's dark tones. The singer's vocal lines are also fairly free, they have no set beat, meter, or phrase pattern. This, therefore, creates the sense of a monologue or soliloquy, an actor's expression of inner emotion.

Alice begins by startling at the sight of the Cat sitting on a tree bough, while the Cat only grins at Alice. As dear Alice asks for advice on which way she ought to continue, the Cat claims, “if you do not know where you want to end up, then surely it does not matter which way you go” (Carroll 49). This simplistic view of decision making plays on the complexity that humans weave into simple decisions of everyday life. Alice’s confusion is spotlighted by this overtly simple take on decisions, and her confusion can then be tied to the absence of a concrete identity. The Cat proceeds to reveal that in Wonderland, “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad,” and this awareness and acceptance of “the fury” within himself further serves to bold Alice’s insecurity (Carroll 49). Perhaps, if Alice knew who she was to others – and to herself – in Wonderland, she would not deny the madness of Wonderlands creatures, including

Alice following the rabbit down the hole shows the curiosity she, like most other children, has. She follows the rabbit throughout Wonderland, almost as if it’s a guide. The rabbit can also be seen as an older figure in Alice’s life that sparks the curiosity into adulthood for her. Alice sees something intriguing in that person and their being older that gets her curious as to what it might be, just as a talking rabbit might spring her interest. She looks up to them and wants to have the qualities they do. Alice follows the rabbit as she would this person to quench her curiosity and see exactly what is going on in this part of life that Alice is so far naive to.

The return constitutes a complex yet fruitful analytic that plays a central role in Ovidian myths, especially that of Orpheus and Eurydice. Among the various receptions of this particular tale, Mary Zimmerman’s play Metamorphoses offers a particularly intriguing retelling. The play alters the typical ending for the myth, when Orpheus’ choice to look back initiates a metamorphosis, underscoring that in order to return to a place or to an original state of being, one must undergo transformation. Change, as a broad concept, often coincides with trauma and emerges in various ways: physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually. Christopher Nolan’s film Inception (2010) retells the Orpheus and Eurydice myth while examining the intersection of

It is noteworthy that the writers used thunder in the background of this scene to create a darker atmosphere. Morpheus teaches Neo to free his mind. (0:53:20-0:54:14; DVD Scene 16) The father of modernity, Rene’ Descartes said: “I think, therefore I am.” Morpheus says: Free your mind by letting go of fear, doubt and disbelief.

So in each painting Orpheus is revealing his feelings through interaction with the

In truth, Morpheus is a good man – so good that he is willing to lay down his own life to allow Neo to escape the Agents in the wet-wall scene.

The character Cypher decides that living in the Matrix is far better than living in the real world. He betrays Morpheus and Neo to be put back in Matrix, having his memories of the real word removed. The question here is whether the harshness of reality is better than the “ignorance is bliss” of illusion. It is always better to know the truth than to live within a lie. The illusionary world presented via a falsehood is, at best, temporary.

Her death illustrates how one’s love can hold an extreme amount of value, but one’s love can also cause one to lose all the opportunities life has to offer and opportunities of personal growth. Upon her arrival to the underworld, she was stripped of her memory and reunited with her father. Her father then goes on to help her regain her memory and he teaches her how to comprehend again. She begins to regain her memories and her father helps her read the letters Orpheus sends to her. Orpheus arrives in the underworld to rescue her and he can, but under strange circumstances.

The Victorian Era was a time where not many ethical ideals and moral standards were sustained. Yet, it is also an Era in which modern society uses to make advancements in both humanity, and philosophy. Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, was a novelist who wrote pass his time. He wrote further in the future of the "common" Victorian Era. The ideology he presents in Alice in Wonderland is conducive to an individual attempting to bring attention to the deteriorating mental health and humane conditions in Victorian-Era England. Alice is representative of a normal child in everyday-Victorian England. This child, Alice, has not been exposed to the likes of diversity, but instead solidarity. The type of solidarity that is all too prevalent throughout the Victorian Era, primarily in the upbringing of children during this time. Children in Victorian Era England were taught to be followers of the norms already established by adults, and to ask no questions. These types of parameters placed restraints on children growing-up during this time; not only physical restraints, but also mental restraints, such as their imaginations'. Carroll was no stranger to this ideal or the likes of this concept; In fact, he constructed Alice in The Wonderland with this in mind, to defy the imaginative 'norm' of Victorian-Era England. He created a character that dreamt of falling down a rabbit hole into another universe. This dream or imagination becomes so vivid in his novel that the

Alazae Te Hau Film Genre Analysis – The Matrix This film genre analysis will identify, scruitinies and discuss the various and diverse filmmaking elements of the Wachowski’s Sci-fi/Action epic, The Matrix (1999), and how they demonstrate the typical codes and conventions of the action subset genres, Western and Asian martial arts. Specifically, the climactic scene of The Matrix (01:52:56 – 01:58:49) portraying the film’s main character, Neo’s fight with the antagonistic agent Mr Smith in an underground subway station, will be centred and focused on for analysis of action influences. At the beginning of the scene, Neo finds himself essentially trapped as Mr Smith confronts him in an underground subway station.

One’s perception and one’s reality are the same in the sense of when the truth is being blurred, your one reality is your perception. In Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland and in Christopher Nolan’s movie, Inception, a common characteristic of a ‘rabbit hole’ or a gateway to a different world or reality is shared between these two works. The two protagonists, Alice in Alice in Wonderland and Dominic Cobb in Inception both travel through an aforementioned ‘rabbit hole’ to a different reality. In these two works, the plot is driven by the rabbit hole model; however the altered reality also allows for the characters to explore themselves, their true nature, and how notions formed in the true world affect one’s ability to interpret and in a way learn from their experiences.