Ideology In The Movie 'The Matrix'

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Ideology is an extremely common term at this day and age, and can and will be found in practically everything we see or hear. At present, ideology mainly relates to religious and political beliefs that we can derive from a particular media; however the term ideology was originally coined in 1976 by Antoine de Tracy(1801). Initially the term ‘Ideology’ used to be used to entitle ideas of a specific group of scholars in France known as ideologists (Thompson, 1990). Semiotics is the study of visual signs and symbols that create meaning to the particular media. ‘The Matrix’ (1999) is one of the most famous and well-known movies of our generation. In 1999 when the movie was released for the very first time it created a sense of change within the

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