William Gibson 's Neuromancer, And The Matrix

Manipulation can serve as a very impressive social tool in order to bend someone's will to fulfill your agenda and trick them into carrying out a specific action. To manipulate is to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner. This is prevalent in the tragic play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Macbeth, an ambitious general, is manipulated by both his wife and three witches to commit heinous crimes. The witches manipulate Macbeth by using his faith in the supernatural to force him to carry out certain actions. As well, they present him with deceiving prophecies to give him false confidence. Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth by questioning his manhood

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.

In William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth", manipulation is a very effective device. The main character Macbeth is a puppet controlled by the words coming from the three witches and Lady Macbeth. The four troublemakers provide Macbeth with the motivation and confidence he needs to kill Duncan and perform other dark actions. Macbeth is very ambitious; there’s no doubt about this. However, there is no sign of him changing from a loyal man to a power hungry man. That is until outside influences begin to interfere with his life. The people with the greatest impact on Macbeth are his wife, Lady Macbeth and the witches. However, he then learns to manipulate others himself. In the end, all the treachery is revealed and he realizes

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,

In 'The Matrix', residents are given the belief that their actions and decisions are already chosen and pre-programmed into the system. The first scene is the peak of Neo's existence within the matrix and is a key scene in which Neo proves that, had he been chosen by the matrix to continue in his path as Thomas Anderson, computer programmer and denizen of the matrix, the events brought onto him would not have occurred yet he prevails as Neo, computer hacker, and disbeliever of the matrix. The Wachowski brothers further this motion by making apparent a common separation between Morpheus and Neo, through the use of gradual and interchanging shots ranging, in the beginning from mid shots

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.

The power of manipulation is a very powerful tool and can easily be misused to benefit

Manipulation is the influence cast among the victim that aims to change their views and attitudes (Schultz). The goal of the manipulator is to socially influence the victim. The manipulator knows what they are doing; however, they cannot stop because they have a goal they must achieve (Simon 2).

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 matrix, as presented in the eponymous film, operates as an Althusserian Ideological State Apparatus (ISA). The Matrix1 presents a world in which "the state [as] a 'machine' of repression" is made literal where robots rule the land (Althusser 68). It is true that they rule by force (sentinels and agents) and these constitute the Repressive State Apparatus, but their primary force of subjugation is the matrix, their ISA. The film traces the path of one man, Neo, in his painful progress from the ideology of the matrix to the "real world," or the ideology of the "real."2

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 ability to control or use someone. Throughout history it has been used over, and over again to influence humans through their emotions. In both The Crucible by Arthur Miller, and the modern-day article “Children are Targets of Nigerian Witch Hunt” by Tracy McVeigh, citizens are deceived through the manipulation of their human emotions, and their fear of witches due to their connection with the devil. In both The Crucible and the article by Tracy McVeigh, religion is used as a means of manipulation resulting in personal gain, fear, and the deaths of many innocent citizens. As the result of an individual’s personal greed, fear is created, and tragedies occur due to the strong religious beliefs of the mass populations.

One should not manipulate others for their own fulfillment, because it will only cause constant pain and destruction. This is a message that is conveyed in the novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and significant effects of manipulation is seen throughout the journey. The nurse in this novel, is someone who has full authority and control over every patient in the ward. Patients like Chief, Cheswick, and Billy have been severely impacted, in result they have lack of control over their lives. A new patient named McMurphy started helping them throughout their struggles, because he usually stands up up to what he thinks is right for all of them. In the novel, “One Flew Over The  Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey, the author demonstrates that manipulation

Therefore, the characters relied on fake human replicas of them, marionettes, to replace them for a while. However, as in many instances, the marionettes could still be detected, and they were so artificially intelligent, they developed strong emotion. These feelings were so strong, they motivated one of the marionettes to lock up its real self, in order to fall in love with his wife. Also, another marionette was used to distract one’s husband without him finding out for over a month. Once again, both replicas were used as distractions as to what they users did not want to face: reality. This story shows more so the emotional blindness and harm that can be caused by technology. These stories were authored to warn about when the limit as to how much technology can be trusted is

The Matrix is a film directed by the Wachowski Brothers depicting a future in which machines rule. The machines have created a complex computer program called “the matrix” which simulates a form of reality. The machines have enslaved humans by hooking them up to the matrix so that they can harvest them as an energy source. A number of people have been able to escape the matrix and they continue to fight the war against the machines in hopes of being able to free everyone still trapped within the matrix. Throughout the film the main characters Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity enter back into the matrix several times for various reasons. Because the film bounces back and forth between reality and the matrix, the film induces a strong theme of