Self-Discovery In The Matrix

This journey of “self discovery” is definitely a controversial topic, considering we’re talking about someone who is portraying a hermaphrodite and this book isn’t for everyone due to its beliefs, though Ana Clavel definitely has an interesting way of thinking and imagination that helped her create this book with all its taboos in intriguing, convincing and controversial

Inception shocked the world upon its release in 2010. Christopher Nolan created a movie that questioned the capabilities that mankind had over the dream world. The movie is about a group of people that are tasked with entering a man's dream and subconsciously planting a idea in his mind. Christopher Nolan uses the (what if?) to engage the audience, he uses the setting to enroll the viewers in the story, and his movie had an awe-inspiring impact on society. The movie is full of twists and turns that are bound to leave the mind wondering what just happened.

Millions of people flock to the movie theater year after year on a quest to be entertained. Even a mediocre movie has the ability to take the audience to another place, escaping the realities of their own life, if only for a mere two hours. Some movies are simply pure entertainment. And then, there are those movies that provoke conversation long after the film has been viewed. Dystopian themes are not new, and have historically provided a template to gage the course of human existence. The Matrix portrays a society where humans exist without freedom. The film is not only entertaining, but also thought provoking. It paints a world with two different dimensions, one with the mind numbing

The Matrix, written and directed by Lary and Andy Wachowski, is a 1999 science-fiction action film that has been regarded as one of the most igneous and highly imaginative films of all time. It depicts the complex story of a dystopian future in which the reality perceived by most human beings is actually a simulated one created by AI machines who use the suppressed humans as energy sources. Though the main characters of the story have freed themselves from the matrix, one character named Cypher (a.k.a. Mr. Reagan) regrets learning the truth and wants to return back to the dream world. Cypher is an example of antagonist Agent Smith's belief that "as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering" as he believes

absence of Alice lays down a theme for the novel: you must return to your roots

In life, finding yourself or who you are is a difficult thing to do. Many people of different ages struggle with this issue. In the novel Tom Finder written by Martine Leavitt, Tom struggles with this himself. With the guidance of Samuel Wolflegs, the Priest, and the Newspaperman he slowly starts to find himself, one step at a time. Seeing as Tom is on the streets with no recognition of who he is and how he got on the streets, he finds it hard to figure out his past. In Tom Finder, Samuel Wolflegs, the Priest, and Newspaperman all help Tom find himself by teaching him that if you face your problems and do what you love, God and everyone around you should accept and support you.

The Matrix is a movie based on the life of a computer programmer named Mr. Anderson during the day and hacker called Neo at night, who will soon be embarked in a journey to save mankind. The story begins when we see Neo asleep in front of his computer in which a program runs automatic researches on another hacker called Morpheus. As the program searches for information, the screen goes black and messages can be seen on the screen telling Neo to wake up and “to follow the white rabbit.” As he fully wakes up, someone knocks on the door and a girl with a white rabbit tattoo shows up. Neo decides then to follow the girl to a nightclub where he met Trinity. After his encounter, Neo wakes up in his bed as all of this was a dream. Later on, when at work, Mr. Anderson receives a

Novalee starts off as an uneducated, small town girl who knows little about the real world and doesn’t think very highly of herself. However, overtime she grows to understand the world around her, learn through reading books, make meaningful relationships, find her passion, pursue it, and become a mother. At the end of the story, Novalee has grown into a strong, independent woman who has a sense of her own worth, pursues her photography career and successfully raises her daughter. She is a great friend to those around her and I truly believe the people in her life help shape her to become who she is at the end of the

At the club that night, Neo and Trinity meet for the first time. Trinity secretly approaches Neo and begins to ask him questions.

Which pill would you take the red or the blue? Continue living a life you’re comfortable with rather than go out and seek the truth? If I had to make a decision I would definitely choose to find the truth just like Neo. In the movie, The Matrix, there are two worlds.

A theme found in Lost Horizon is the desire to leave and apparent utopia in favor of a former home, however flawed. This is comparable to Odysseus who wanted to leave the utopian island of Kalypso to return home to Ithaca and his wife. The British youth Mallinson is similar to Odysseus in this respect. While Conway, Barnard and Miss Brinklow find Shangri-la a satisfying place to live, Mallinson intensely desires to leave and return home to his family, friends, and country. The other characters’ lack of connections to the outside world causes the difference in their attitudes

The reference to Jesus Christ in this scene implies that Neo represents the human psyche beginning the individuation process. Neo meets a woman named Trinity at the party. Trinity tells Neo that she is aware of his desire to know what the Matrix is. “It's the question that brought you here. What is the Matrix?” (The Matrix). Trinity is the one who will lead him towards the underworld. Jung called the her a soul figure, one that occupies an area or boundary between the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. Trinity is also associated with a person's calling or fate.

     In the film The Matrix Keanu Reeves plays Thomas A. Anderson, who is a man living a double life. One part of his life consists of working for a highly respectable software company. The second part of his life he is a hacker under the alias "Neo." One day Neo is approached by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and is taught that everything he thought was real was actually The Matrix, a computer program developed by machines in order to use human beings as batteries. Morpheus has been searching his whole life for “the one” to end the war between the humans and machines. Morpheus feels Neo is the chosen one, the one who will set everyone free from the Matrix. Neo is reluctant to accept this

The novel carries several themes including; Person’s constant search for his or her identity. The narrator - Hans Thomas - started his narration with some advice on how to find your identity. He said “My advice to those who are going to find themselves is – stay exactly where you are. Otherwise you are in great danger of losing yourself forever.” This shows that it was not only his mother who had left in the search of finding herself. Hans, who came to feel as though his entire life was missing a piece because of feeling alone and the absence of his mother began trying to answer his philosophical questions. His father, who was a illegitimate son, was also trying to answer his own questions, he himself searching for his long lost father. By

This man will lead and succeed in the war against the machines. When the real population believes that Neo is their savior, they find a new hope they never had before. This new commitment will bring change and faith to the ‘real’ population. This faith will lead to political sacrifice and loss of life in hope of change for the future.