Symbolic Imagery In The Matrix By Larry And Andy Wachowski

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“Fine then! But I am better than you in EVERY WAY!” You shout at your former friend, the anger welling up inside of you. “ Don’t even try to act like you could ever be better than me. You never could. So you can stop trying.” As soon as you spit those words out, you finally realize what you’re getting into. “You ARROGANT beast!” Your opponent shouts at you, not hesitantly at all, like the insult was a bitter taste he had to get out of his mouth. Before you know it, your actions are fueled by the burning passion of rage. About five minutes later, you are still punching the air as you are pulled of him, still trying to swing at his head, trying to hit him just once, or maybe even as many times as he hit you. You think about the fight. You don’t want to admit it, but you WERE an arrogant beast, like he said. And look where it got you. Bruised, bloody, and beaten up. Arrogance can lead to violence, and the story, “The Fight”, by Adam Bagdasarian, can very clearly reflect this theme. In the beginning of the story, Adam was cocky and arrogant. All he thought about was how great and tough he was. In the middle of the story, another middle schooler, Mike, challenged him to a fight, and Adam was petrified. At the end of the story, Adam lost the fight and was not as cocky and pride-filled.

Within the Christian faith, there lies the belief that all mankind are born sinners and through their faith can seek redemption. This belief can be found in more detail within the Christian text known as the Bible. An example of this can be found in the Genesis chapter of the Bible which portrays that even the very first Humans ever to be created in God’s image, named Adam and Eve, defied God despite his pre-emptive warnings not too because of their natural tendency as humans to sin. Not only can one chose with their own will to disobey God but one’s faith can be easily swayed by the evils of the world therefore sin can forever bind them in chains for eternity. “Young Goodman Brown,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, reveals a similar

The use of these types of phrases makes an image in the reader’s mind which is chaotic and confusing. By creating a confusion via the use of this imagery helps Faulkner to achieve his purpose of creating chaos and adds a considerable amount of depth. Equally, his use of imagery is what creates the action to his chaos. Having these depictions of action and confusing visualization allows him to create chaos in the reader’s mind as well, and not only in the

Vonnegut also uses many images in a repetitive fashion. He talks about the blue and ivory feet several times, as well as the pattern of orange and black that appears both on the train taking prisoners to the war camp and on the wedding tent for Billy's daughter (69, 72). Furthermore, sleepers (Vonnegut and his wife, people in the prison camps) are repeatedly described as being "nestled like spoons" (70). Another common image is that of moonlight in chapter four. In several places during this chapter, the image of moonlight suggests a mood of serenity and stillness. Additionally, the image of the soldiers hobbling up and down is repeated several times. This image stretches from the relentless bobbing up-and-down, up-and-down of the soldiers to the Tralfamadorian novel where the characters "certainly had their ups and downs, ups and downs" (87).

What defines a “good” or “bad” person? The answer is complicated because we all have different perspectives on what we believe to be right and wrong. We as individuals have our own set of ethics by which we try to use when making decisions. However, when a person encounters a difficult dilemma, that choice can impact and even alter a person’s life. “Good People” by David Foster Wallace is an informative and insightful story of a young, unwed, Christian couple that are facing the conflicts of an unplanned pregnancy. Although outwardly this story seems to focus on “to abort” or “not to abort,” the underlying theme focuses on the internal conflicts the young man faces when weighing out the consequences of a decision. David Foster Wallace uses symbolism and an omniscient third person point of view in “Good People” to illustrate the internal battle one faces when dealing with the moral and religious dilemmas such as an unplanned pregnancy.

One of the factors that shaped the New World was religion; it was a pillar in the fledgling society and a reason for migration for so many Europeans. Puritanism was a major belief system that held strongly throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Nathaniel Hawthorne, a nineteenth century American novelist and short story writer, composed the story of “Young Goodman Brown” which takes place in Salem. All Puritans were to take a journey which was supposed to lead them to a conversion experience. This journey takes them through the spiritual heart. It is intended for self – examination; the elimination of the three vices: boredom, vice, and

Dugard uses many forms of repetition to emphasize a certain struggle or feeling she is going through. Epanalepsis helps to engage the senses and exemplify how important they are to her. During the time she was held hostage, one of the only activities she could use to entertain herself and remain sane was to listen to the outside world she so longed to enter. Anaphora illustrated her nostalgic feelings toward her family; more specifically, her mother. She continuously thinks of her mom and how much she misses her. As a result of these wistful feelings and never ending days, she finds herself feeling hopeless. She beings to lose hope in ever being found. Dugard’s repetition of this phrase illuminates how rough her situation got and how

When reading Stephen King’s “The Body” there are many accounts of symbolism that happen throughout the novella, some being more apparent than others. Some of the main and more important examples of symbolism would be Vern’s lost penny jar, Mr. Lachance’s garden, and finally the deer that Gordie sees while near the train tracks. These specific items have very meaningful symbolism attached to them that is vital to the story.

The movie The Matrix, written and directed by The Wachowski brothers, can be seen as the ultimate Marxist metaphor. Its basic premise is that the world as we know it is fake; it is a “computer simulated dreamworld”, mimicking our own world of the late 90s, called the Matrix. In charge of the Matrix itself is a seemingly malevolent sentient machine species. Even worse, the sole purpose of this simulation is to control humanity, which has been enslaved inside the simulation for several hundreds of years. It was a matter of survival for the Machines, as the humans in the days before the Matrix attempted to destroy the Machines by blocking their power source – the sun. So, in order for their species to continue “living” humanity was enslaved within the Matrix and their bioelectric energies were harvested and used to power the Machine civilization. Clearly if Karl Marx heard this story he would fall in love with it, assuming that he could stomach both the violence in the movie and Keanu Reeves’ acting*.

Neo was now surrounded by people just like him who were searching for answers as to what the Matrix is. As they were sitting around the table, Mouse turns to Neo and says, "To deny our impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human." During the Agent Simulation Training with Morpheus, Neo follows his impulses and turns around to look at the woman in the red dress, Mouse's proud creation. Neo was only following his human instincts. Of course, Mouse's statement would only be true for all humans if we were actually allowed to have impulses. Winston Smith, in George Orwell's 1984, would certainly disagree with this notion of humans having impulses, and every one in Airstrip One, Oceania

In The Matrix, many themes contribute to the greatness of this film. The theme of freedom is expressed in many ways. When Neo takes the red pill instead of the blue pill he had set himself free from the Matrix, a simulation designed to keep humans trapped so machines can use them as batteries; this shows that Neo chooses the harder path of freedom rather than the easier, yet ignorant path of imprisonment. Another example is when Neo dies at the end of the film and his mind has not been set free and he is still being restricted to the things he could do in the Matrix, but when Neo brings himself back, his mind has been completely freed and he became capable of inhumane things, such as being able to move at incredible speeds and being able to stop bullets in midair. Another theme in The Matrix is the theme of man versus machine, which is portrayed all throughout the film. A battle breaks out between the machines and the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar, a hovercraft that the crew uses in the real world, but for the crew to stay alive, they need to use an EMP, but they cannot

This displays how the crew views the matrix. They could remain outside the matrix as soon as they became enlightened, but instead they repeatedly enter the matrix in order to help others. This is displayed when Trinity and other crew members tracked down Neo at the beginning of the movie. They were willing to go into The Matrix to help yet another person achieve enlightenment.

Jorge Luis Borges, author of Labyrinth, questions in his short stories the illusory nature of knowledge. The complexities of Borges’s writing making clear that not all things are easy to understand and decipher. In all his short stories the images help the readers to understand the message or the meaning of the text. For instance, Jorges uses much the images of the Mirror, the Labyrinth, the Circle, and the mise en abyme to signal one of his great themes, knowledge as an illusion. He lays emphasis on the infinity of knowledge and the impossibility of acquiring all of it. He also speaks of metafiction in his short story; how books speak of other book and how books allude to other books. In this essay, we will look at three different visual

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a novel written to highlight the intriguing lives and misconceptions that are often identified with African culture. Achebe writes Things Fall Apart from the African view, a foreign perspective that sees westerners as the outsiders and Africans as the insiders. Focusing on a clan in lower Nigeria, Achebe profiles the clash of cultures that erupts when white Christians colonize and spread their religious ideals. Achebe is able to make his book so popular to the entire world because of his expert use of symbols like drums, locusts, and fire. These common symbols in which drums represent the beat of all civilization, locusts represent invasion by an outsider, and fire represents destruction, all aid