When I was a kid, I frequently cogitated about being the only conscious being on this planet. Everyone else was just following a script; they were not able to think nor even exist in this world. They were makeshift beings existing only for the sole purpose of guiding my life. Ever since I was five years old, my entire life has been on the internet. I matured fast because I played sophisticated video games on a daily basis and interacted with people much older than myself. In elementary school, I perceived my peers to be simple-minded compared to myself because they did not share my hobbies. As I grew older; however, I learned that the only reason I did this was to put myself above others since I did not have many friends and got bullied. I
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It is the feeling of loneliness that drives us to become unlonely. To become unlonely, we must first accept our purpose in this world. The movie “The Matrix”, by Andy Wachowski is constructed around many philosophies; one of them is solipsism. At the beginning of the movie, Neo is alone in the matrix because everyone else is being controlled by code. He must accept he is the chosen one in order to achieve power and escape the matrix. He gains this power when he is trapped in a hallway with Agent Smith and hits a point of apotheosis. Neo uses solipsism to re-write the code and ultimately defeat the agents. Additionally, in the book A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini, the main character Mariam seeks power when she is alone. Mariam grew up without her father and was married to a forty-year old man in her teenage years. She suffers a life of abuse from her husband, Rashid, and the local Taliban. When Rashid marries another young girl, Mariam, who is tired of the abuse, eventually kills him. Mariam kills Rashid because he was showing too much attention to his other wife. The feeling of loneliness eventually drove Mariam to seek power, and this meant killing Rashid. In this same sense, humans do whatever they can to get power when they are …show more content…
The survival of our species relies on someone taking power and leading us. In The Matrix, Neo gets several advanced Kung-Fu programs installed into his system. Morpheus knows Neo is The One and therefore he will have to fight in order to prove it. To support this, Morpheus says “Come on! Stop trying to hit me and hit me!” This shows that Morpheus knows Neo will eventually become a greater threat in the radar of the agents and he will have to fight them sooner or later. The only way for Neo to survive the agents is to gain power. Another instance of desiring power for survival is in the novel Theories of Relativity by Barbara Haworth-Attard. The main character, Dylan, is an epiphanized teenager living alone in the streets. He faces many problems throughout the story such as death threats from a local pimp. Dylan’s only safe place is the library, where he often goes to learn about Einstein’s theory of relativity. He uses the theories to accept his place in the world and keep his life going. In this case, Dylan gained power from studying Einstein’s theory and used them to survive. Humans rely on power when faced with life-threatening
It is the feeling of loneliness that drives us to become unlonely. To become unlonely, we must first accept our purpose in this world. The movie “The Matrix”, by Andy Wachowski is constructed around many philosophies; one of them is solipsism. At the beginning of the movie, Neo is alone in the matrix because everyone else is being controlled by code. He must accept he is the chosen one in order to achieve power and escape the matrix. He gains this power when he is trapped in a hallway with Agent Smith and hits a point of apotheosis. Neo uses solipsism to re-write the code and ultimately defeat the agents. Additionally, in the book A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini, the main character Mariam seeks power when she is alone. Mariam grew up without her father and was married to a forty-year old man in her teenage years. She suffers a life of abuse from her husband, Rashid, and the local Taliban. When Rashid marries another young girl, Mariam, who is tired of the abuse, eventually kills him. Mariam kills Rashid because he was showing too much attention to his other wife. The feeling of loneliness eventually drove Mariam to seek power, and this meant killing Rashid. In this same sense, humans do whatever they can to get power when they are …show more content…
The survival of our species relies on someone taking power and leading us. In The Matrix, Neo gets several advanced Kung-Fu programs installed into his system. Morpheus knows Neo is The One and therefore he will have to fight in order to prove it. To support this, Morpheus says “Come on! Stop trying to hit me and hit me!” This shows that Morpheus knows Neo will eventually become a greater threat in the radar of the agents and he will have to fight them sooner or later. The only way for Neo to survive the agents is to gain power. Another instance of desiring power for survival is in the novel Theories of Relativity by Barbara Haworth-Attard. The main character, Dylan, is an epiphanized teenager living alone in the streets. He faces many problems throughout the story such as death threats from a local pimp. Dylan’s only safe place is the library, where he often goes to learn about Einstein’s theory of relativity. He uses the theories to accept his place in the world and keep his life going. In this case, Dylan gained power from studying Einstein’s theory and used them to survive. Humans rely on power when faced with life-threatening