Composers use literature to educate us about the world in which we live; The Matrix, a film by the Wachowski brothers warns of the dangers of over relying on technology and in contrast, Animal Farm, a novella by George Orwell uses an allegory to describe what can happen when power corrupts. Both of these texts have many themes and motifs in common, such as: the corruption of power, minorities controlling the masses and appearance vs reality. These themes help us learn about the world we live in and society in general, as many of these themes can be seen in our daily lives.
Firstly, minorities controlling the masses is an ever present motif in both of these texts. In Animal Farm, the pigs have utter control and dominance over the other ignorant …show more content…
Both of the plots in the texts could loosely be based around rebellion, from the rebellion on Manor Farm, to the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar rebelling against the control of the agents. Morpheus, who is the “leader” of the Nebuchadnezzar is ready for a rebellion and is preparing Neo for it as well, much like how Old Major is preparing all the animals for the rebellion against man. “I do not know when it will come… sooner or later justice will be done”, Old Major says this in his speech when he is briefing all the animals on the dream he had, it explores how eventually there will be a rebellion, bringing justice and hopefully equity for all the animals, though this doesn’t go to plan as the pigs take control over all the animals. In the Matrix, Morpheus is preparing the whole crew of the Nebuchadnezzar for rebellion, he tells Neo this when he first enters the real world and is explaining the workings of the agents. “Sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them”. In the Matrix, the humans are also rebelling against the machines, though this is just a big analogy for not over relying on things as it can lead to destruction. This is how the theme of rebellion is conveyed in both of these …show more content…
This is made apparent when Trinity is running from Agent Smith in the beginning of the movie, she jumps to another building, and through the use of a side angle camera shot we are shown just how fast she is moving, almost inhuman speeds. This is contrasted in Animal Farm when the pigs reveal their intelligence and show that “during the past three months the pigs had taught themselves to read and write from an old spelling book that had belonged to Mr Jones.”. This explores how everything is not as it seems and that the pigs are extremely intelligent and as a cause of this they end up ruling the more naive animals; which contrasts nicely with other motifs of the two texts. This is contrasted in The Matrix when Neo is visiting the Oracle the child bends the spoon, showing a warped reflection of Neo from the spoon, showing Neo’s confused expression, this explores how he is confused about his identity and not sure of what is to come, hence being warped in the reflection. In animal farm, Napoleon at first comes off as a kind leader, “until there was a pile of corpses laying before napoleons feet”. He executed animals for crimes they did not commit. In the matrix, while interrogating Morpheus, Agent smith said “the matrix was designed to be a perfect world”, but due to the recurring motif of appearance vs reality, nothing is as it seems and the matrix was never like
Firstly, minorities controlling the masses is an ever present motif in both of these texts. In Animal Farm, the pigs have utter control and dominance over the other ignorant …show more content…
Both of the plots in the texts could loosely be based around rebellion, from the rebellion on Manor Farm, to the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar rebelling against the control of the agents. Morpheus, who is the “leader” of the Nebuchadnezzar is ready for a rebellion and is preparing Neo for it as well, much like how Old Major is preparing all the animals for the rebellion against man. “I do not know when it will come… sooner or later justice will be done”, Old Major says this in his speech when he is briefing all the animals on the dream he had, it explores how eventually there will be a rebellion, bringing justice and hopefully equity for all the animals, though this doesn’t go to plan as the pigs take control over all the animals. In the Matrix, Morpheus is preparing the whole crew of the Nebuchadnezzar for rebellion, he tells Neo this when he first enters the real world and is explaining the workings of the agents. “Sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them”. In the Matrix, the humans are also rebelling against the machines, though this is just a big analogy for not over relying on things as it can lead to destruction. This is how the theme of rebellion is conveyed in both of these …show more content…
This is made apparent when Trinity is running from Agent Smith in the beginning of the movie, she jumps to another building, and through the use of a side angle camera shot we are shown just how fast she is moving, almost inhuman speeds. This is contrasted in Animal Farm when the pigs reveal their intelligence and show that “during the past three months the pigs had taught themselves to read and write from an old spelling book that had belonged to Mr Jones.”. This explores how everything is not as it seems and that the pigs are extremely intelligent and as a cause of this they end up ruling the more naive animals; which contrasts nicely with other motifs of the two texts. This is contrasted in The Matrix when Neo is visiting the Oracle the child bends the spoon, showing a warped reflection of Neo from the spoon, showing Neo’s confused expression, this explores how he is confused about his identity and not sure of what is to come, hence being warped in the reflection. In animal farm, Napoleon at first comes off as a kind leader, “until there was a pile of corpses laying before napoleons feet”. He executed animals for crimes they did not commit. In the matrix, while interrogating Morpheus, Agent smith said “the matrix was designed to be a perfect world”, but due to the recurring motif of appearance vs reality, nothing is as it seems and the matrix was never like