Symbolism In The Matrix

After reading the book, The Other Side, the author uses symbolism, tone, and he wrote it to an audience. The book is based on racism, today we may not know about it, and it still goes on today. Whites and blacks have both been against each other until one very powerful leader stopped racism. The book has lots of symbolism related to racism.

The Matrix ( Wachowski, Andy, and Lana Wachowski 1999 ), is a story that presents a dilemma. Is virtual reality just for fun, or is it being used to imprison you? That is the question Neo faces as he is manning his computer doing some hacking on the side. It is through his computer work that he meets with Morpheus who presents Neo

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, even if for just a few short hours. Some movies are simply pure entertainment. And then, there are those movies that provoke conversation long after the film has been viewed. Despite the popularity of the recent films The Hunger Games and Divergence, the dystopian theme in film is not a new one. The Matrix shows a society where humans exist without any freedom. The film, not only entertaining but thought provoking as well, paints a world with two different dimensions, a world very much like today’s when the film is closely examined. The Matrix questions the benefit of technology and influence over society.

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.

We are blinded, only see shadows, hear echoes, and the world around us is a mere shadow of what truly exists “Hence, the only way to believe oneself to have knowledge is to be simpleminded; those sophisticated enough to see the relativity of everything, but still not wise enough to turn their faces toward the light, can only despair, or delight, in the lack of real knowledge” (BS). In relation to his beliefs are the ideas of the famous Rene Descartes. He doubted the certainty of the external world and came to the conclusion that our senses can’t be trusted. Additionally, Descartes ' stated that you can’t trust your senses because there has been times when you are dreaming or imagining what you have experienced rather than it being real. Certainly it becomes questionable whether in fact we can believe if any of our principles are true. In The Matrix, Neo finds out the truth and answer to his question. The Matrix is just an illusion of the world around and the humans are plugged in by a computer program. Those who are plugged in have never truly saw the world for what is. Similar to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the humans are prisoners forced to see shadows which are copies of things in the real world. When Neo is finally confronted with the truth he can’t imagine the thought of ever going back. Instead he plans on exposing the truth by revealing how the world they live in truly looks.

After the early 21st century, humans built these machines, which are now held in a nuclear-winter-like setting. Being deprived of sunlight as an energy source, they have enslaved the human race and are farming people as a source of bioelectrical energy. The humans are kept in an unconscious state in podlike containers in a vast holding field, plugged in to a central computer. In the scenario of The Matrix, everything in the world; cars, buildings, cities, and countries are part of a complex computer-generated virtual reality, which within the humans interact. Everything they see, smell and hear is part of this virtual construct and does not really exist. A computer merely stimulates their brains and deceives them into believing that they are all living normal 20th-century lives, eating sleeping, working and interacting together. They are all blinded to the truth about how and why they exist. After a handful of people have escaped from the nightmarish world of the Matrix, they find out the truth and reach out to those still consumed with the falsities of this world. One of these, a man named Morpheus, hacks into the Matrix and contacts Neo, telling him,

The fear of technology is another recurring theme throughout the film. The “unplugged” humans have retreated into hiding. Neo takes refuge on the ship, Nebuchabnezzar, but constantly needs attempts to avoid detection by the Sentinels, an electronic pulse-seeking, computer-generated robot The Matrix also asserts its control by tracing telephone calls in order to find the rouge human. This is one way the Matrix is able to fight against the human resistance movement. Once a human is located, the Matrix program eliminates its threat, affirming its dominance over humans. Like the film,

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

The purpose of Morpheus is not to tell Neo what the truth is but to only show him the path that he must take to discover this truth, and Neos identity will be revealed through this truth. Their first “upload” known as a residual self-imaging program, gives a mental projection of the digital self. It is here that Neo realizes the distinctions between reality and fantasy. In this program, he is taken a step closer to finding out what the truth really is. When in this program, he believes that an object such as the chair in front of him is real because he can feel it. Subsequently, Morpheus informs him that reality is not based on senses, because if reality and senses were the same, reality would simply be electrical signals processed by the brain. Morpheus also reveals the truth about the fantasy Neo had been living throughout his life in The Matrix. He said “The Matrix in itself is a computer generated dream world, built to keep humans under control, so that machines could consume energy by harvesting them.” When Neo heard this, he didn’t want to believe it anymore. Neo struggled with the idea that he didn’t know what he was and if he or what he was living in was real. He began to question whether choosing the red pill was a good idea to begin with. He wants to go back, but he realizes that he can’t.

People have themselves become that means of production, in that their bodies have become the energy source that keeps the economic machine running. Neo is informed by one of the rebels – that he is nothing more than a “coppertop”, a battery that runs the system. But he also finds hope, because the rebels are fighting back – and, as Marx had hoped, the “grave diggers” are going to try to destroy the capitalistic machines. Life in the Matrix is not quite the Utopia Marx envisioned. And we discover this by observing Mr. Anderson’s daily grind, as he follows the daily routine of a dead-end job. This is not an ideal life for any man. One would want to escape, question, and break free of this routine that is his “life”.

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.

In the movie, truth is revealed to be reality, the world as it actually exists, or, life outside of the control of the Matrix. While Kierkegaard presents the belief that the only truth that matters is subjective, the Matrix claims that only objective truth matters (Kierkegaard). Reality is an objective subject, and the Matrix is subjective due to its existence as merely a computer system in a person’s brain. Therefore, according to the movie, truth is our objective reality. Morpheus tells Neo that reality is outside of the Matrix and claims that all those still living in the matrix are enslaved by the machines (The

Imagine living through life completely bound and facing a reality that doesn’t even exist. The prisoners in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” are blind from true reality as well as the people in the movie “The Matrix” written and directed by the Wachowski brothers. They are given false images and they accept what their senses are telling them, and they believe what they are experiencing is all that really exists. Plato the ancient Greek philosopher wrote “The Allegory of the Cave”, to explain the process of enlightenment and what true reality may be. In the movie “The Matrix”, Neo (the main character) was born into a world of illusions called the matrix. His true reality is being controlled by the puppet- handlers called the machines who

The first theme that is similar in both the movie and the Christian religion is the use of the number three. There were three Matrix movies made and there were three main characters in each movie: Morpheus, who proclaims that Neo is “the one”; Neo, who represents the savior for humankind; and Trinity, the one who brings Neo into the trio and whose name also means three. In the Christian religion three is represented in the Holy Trinity, which is the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Another connection to this number is the subtle use of three at the start of the movie when Trinity is in the hotel room 303. Since zero is a neutral number without it this number would just be 33, which is the age that Jesus Christ was said to be when he was crucified and then resurrected.