The Nature Of Manipulation : William Gibson 's Neuromancer, And The Matrix

There’s has been people who either have been manipulated and then there’s people that have manipulated people. Being experienced with situation can make it easy for one to manipulate anyone. For example in “The Crucible” it demonstrates how one young child can manipulate everyone from children to an adult into believing her vengeance story. With the right situation experience one can manipulate with ease, but it shouldn’t be easy for one to manipulate half of the people in the town.

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.

Throughout Ken Kesey's novel, “One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest,” the use of manipulation is a re-occurring motif. Manipulation is defined as 'shrewd of devious management. Manipulation is put into context by how the character's use it. The first character to master it is the antagonist Nurse Ratchet. She uses it to manipulate patients to manage her mechanically structured ward. The other character is the (antagonist, protagonist?) patient McMurphy. He on the other hand manipulates people to help them grow or gain money. These two characters also go head to head with the power of deceptive manipulation as their weapons.

The three essential components of manipulation are lying, controlling, and using. These three components are shown in both “The Crucible Act” by Arthur Miller and the film “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In “The Crucible Act”, Abigail lies and controls the girls by telling them nothing would happen if they just follow Abigail’s lead. In the film “The Great Gatsby”, Gatsby lies and makes Nick believe that Gatsby is a kind man and very wealthy. Manipulation is shown in “The Crucible” and “The Great Gatsby” because the character uses other characters to get what they desire.

Manipulation, the skillful handling, controlling or using of something or someone. This term describes the main character, Hundert, in the short story “The Palace Thief”, written by Ethan Canin. Hundert, a former history teacher at St Benedicts School, believes in molding his students into what he likes. It is quite funny because instead of Hundert molding his students, it is his student, Sedgewick Bell, whom molds Hundert. Sedgewick Bell is not the brightest of all students, but he is the most manipulative.

Huxley only conveys the negative effects of the idea that outside forces such as advertisements, institutions and our peers through the characters in Brave New World. However, through research, manipulation has been proved to have some positive effects on our mind despite the negatives that the role of manipulation plays on us.

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 Matrix Interweaves much symbolism, mythology, philosophy, and psychology. On the surface, the movie challenges the dominance of technology in our culture and predicts an apocalyptic result from the use of artificial intelligence. Yet, behind the human struggle for survival is a mythical backdrop upon which are backlit some of C.G. Jung's basic ideas regarding the human psyche. These Jungian ideas include the ego-Self relationship and how it relates to the persona, the shadow, individuation, and the transcendent function.

Individuals struggle to find a higher sense of truth because their mental obstacles are keeping them from reality. Manipulation, the feeling of fear and lastly ignorance are all massive obstacles an individual needs to overcome to soon become closer to the truth. There is a famous saying about the use of manipulation that states, “ If it was manipulation, it’s been successful”. The use of manipulation has been proven successful In The Truman Show.

The computers have created a complex technology system called the Matrix which simulates a form of reality. To keep humans under control, the technology places them in the Matrix, a computer system that is based on what we know is the real world. “That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.”(1999 Wachowski) This quotation is explaining that Morpheus is trying to tell Neo that he can not leave the Matrix. “A prison for your mind” is foreshadowing that Neo will not be able to escape the Matrix. In the movie the Matrix the directors reveal to the audience how much influence machines have over humans. Machines act like there enslaving people. In order to understand that machines are slaving people you must

William Gibson’s Neuromancer, and The Matrix by The Wachowskis both depict a society in which humans are under constant manipulation by indispensable machines. In Neuromancer, the protagonist Case is indirectly manipulated by a powerful Artificial Intelligence named Wintermute. In The Matrix, majority of the human population lives within a computer simulated world, run by machines. However, both storylines ultimately depict the fact that manipulation takes origin within the individual rather than another entity, as both protagonists are frequently manipulated due to flaws in their own character. These character flaws are not individual, rather, they are representative of all humans. Thus, Neuromancer and The Matrix both demonstrate the

Although in Nozick's example, individuals start outside the machine, those in The Matrix, like Neo, begin life in the Matrix. Neo's subsequent choice to unplug from the Matrix to confront the real world would go against status quo bias and aversion loss. However, I suggest this explains why The Matrix's narrative revolves around sinister machine rulers, who treat humans as mere batteries, and who aim to callously destroy those who pose a challenge to them. In this way, the film-makers engage our moral emotions such as anger, solidarity, and empathy, which rally us against the machines and the concept of the Matrix. And these moral emotions inflate further, once we become engrossed with the struggle of those living outside of the Matrix, individuals who merely want to live dignified autonomous lives, without having to submit to the machines who aim to destroy them. Additionally, the film-makers use characters to stir our emotions, building our feelings against anything but an existence in reality. For example, in contrast to Neo, the character Cypher draws our moral condemnation, and the film-makers create an emotional association between his negative character and the assertion that pleasure is what is most valuable. Unlike Neo, Cypher appears weak, selfish, and unprincipled, and the narrative sees him willing to do anything, even kill, to get plugged back into the Matrix in order to be delivered pleasure via a virtual life. Cypher embodies all the traits that we dislike in people, and we are disgusted by him. This disgust in Cypher, just like our outrage at the machine rulers, not only leaves us rallying against the machines in The Matrix, but also serves against the notion that pleasure is what is ultimately valuable, as we associate such a notion with the traits of Cypher, who

Humans are being oppressed by the artificial intelligence as they are deprived from the truth that holds the ability to give them freedom. The aritifical intelligence and agents are aware of the power that humans hold, which is seen through how triumphant only a few enlightened humans can be — the revolutionists. Furthermore, this oppression assists the ulterior motive — the artificial intelligence harness the energy of humans to survive. It is only those who are a part of the revolutionist group that are able to escape from it as they are all class conscious — aware of them the oppression that that exists around them. Furthermore, as oppression exists, it allows for the maintenance of power, which is accomplished through guarding the matrix through the means of oppression.

As a result citizens ' don’t remember anything except the fact that their past was filled with happiness. Thus making the citizens ' now believe whatever information the government is feeding them about their past in order to obtain power for the present. Secondly the use of manipulation is similar in V for Vendetta. The scenario in V for Vendetta is when the Norsefire party in the British government tried to manipulate the citizens ' whereabouts on the St. Mary virus. The virus destroyed and killed many of the citizens '.This event was significant because it brought the reality of the governments outlook in showing who they really were. The British government manipulated citizens’ by blaming “ Terrorist” for the cause of this virus which in reality was really them. The leader of the Norsefire party Adam Susan coincidentally came in place when people started aggrivating and acting chaotic. As a result of Adam in charge he uses V as an experiment on the St. Mary virus. This goes to show how the government manipulated their citizens ' into thinking V was the terrorist in charge of the virus when really they were using him as an experiment in order to keep there reputation clean. Lastly in Harrison Bergerone the use of manipulatiopn is being done by the United States Handicapper General. Manipulation is seen when the author states : “ It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think

Manipulation is getting what you want by ignoring or harming the desires of others. Manipulators use charm, persuasion, coaxing, trickery, and misdirection. The underlying idea is "I have to fool people to make them give me what I want." We can catch ourselves falling into this behavior when you aren 't listening to other people, when you ignore what they want and when you pretend that your desires cost nobody else a price. There are also