Imagine waking up panicked, breathing heavy, and heart beating out of your chest when you realize you were having a nightmare and everything is back to normal. Is everything back to normal? How do you know this dream is not a reality? Maybe the life you thought was real was in fact false and the dream was the truth. Neo in the movie “The Matrix” was put in this situation and began to question the reality of everything when Morpheus believed he was the one and gave him the opportunity to see the truth. What is real? The question instantly triggers in my mind the similarities with Plato’s “Allegory in the Cave”.
The “One” is the name given to Neo because he was able to see the matrix in code and not the illusion everyone else could see. In the allegory in the cave one prisoner was freed from the chains he had become use to since childhood and was allowed to see life outside the cave. Initially the man eyes are hurt by the light unused to the truth as he begins to see things other than the shadows he assumed was the reality. Neo was living in the matrix in a world he believed was the truth in fact the matrix was a computer simulated dream world built to keep people under control. Like the slaves in the cave neo was one of many people enslaved in this prison of his mind.
Blinded by the light is one of the focus point in both the matrix and the allegory of the cave. The light in both examples are to resemble the truth. When they both were exposed to the truth the light hurt their eyes because your initial reaction to something unknown is to reject or not believe it due to the ignorance of us as humans. Like the man in the cave once his eyes became accustomed to the light and he accepted what he was seeing he wanted to go back to and tell others. Same thing with Neo at first he is unsure of why Trinity and Morpheus is reaching out to him but as they begin to explain or not explain to him and give him the choice to be unchained or in this case unplugged he chose the red pill.
The Red Pill and Blue Bill concept of the movie is there to scare you into old habits. As you’re watching the film you now are questioning reality and are starting to believe the matrix is bad corrupt than a loop hole happens and Morpheus gives Neo the option of taking the blue pill and continue life in the illusion you’re accustomed to or red pill and face the reality and help save humanity from this controlled world in a daze. For plot reasons he took the red pill but what if he would have taken the blue pill would his memory be cleared of his encounter with Morpheus or Trinity or The Agents? If not then maybe he would have continued thinking about what Morpheus was trying to tell him he was clearly able to reach Morpheus once what would stop him from doing it again.
What is Real? I laugh at the concept when I begin to think about it. The answer is not something that is easy to come by. Man has been seeking this answer for as long as the world exist but upon seeking an answer no one could come up with a conclusion because one idea or theory conflicts with each other. The world must have taken the purple pill because we want the truth but are too unenlightened to seek the answer.
I find your introduction and conclusion to be most intresting. I especially like how you confined the world to have taken the purple pill in defense that we want to know the truth but are to unelightend to find it. That was very creative and orginal. In your introduction i like how you kept me focus and lead me right into your first paragraph nice trasition,right from that intro i had an idea of what your essay was going to be about. Althought i felt for your body paragraphs you could of stook to one idea and your trasitions could of been better i sort of picked up that you were jus continueing your idea in the next paragraph rather than switching to a more broad idea if you get what i mean but overall i find your eszsay to be good i like it. if i was your professor i would of gave you an zero .. nah nah lol im lien i would of passed you good job.
ReplyDeleteHey, if I sound harsh--I don't mean it.
ReplyDeleteJust to get this out of the way, your grammar needs work. And what I mean by that is mostly a punctuation thing. You very rarely, if ever, use commas. For the most part, it makes the essay hard to read; obviously it's not a huge problem. It's really only a huge problem for teachers and I can see them lowering your grade because of it so you should watch out for that. A helpful hint I've been told is to insert them when you want to pause. Like, read it out loud and if you find a place you want to pause, then put a comma.
You should avoid asking questions in an essay; in the first paragraph alone you have three. Think of an essay as a statement by you. YOU'RE telling US what to think and why it makes sense to think that way. At the very least, make it so you're answering the unasked question. You don't do it too much, but I think there can be ways for you to phrase some of your questions differently so they don't seem like you're asking us. Like this, for insance:
"For plot reasons he took the red pill but what if he would have taken the blue pill would his memory be cleared of his encounter with Morpheus or Trinity or The Agents?" What if instead of askign "what if?", tell us. "Imagine he took the red pill.." and then link it to the allegory, tell us what you think would happen based on what you know of people and of the story itself.
I also feel you can expand upon the the similarities between the two here. At the end, Neo is going to show people "the truth", what happened when the man in the cave tried to do the same? Will this happen to Neo? Tell us. Expound more.
That's it. Other than that, I think you've got a good foundation. Just work on the punctuation and expand your ideas a bit and you've got a winner.