Morpheus

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave The allegory of the cave is not something everyone understands. Trying to understand the basic idea is not something easy. Plato wrote this theory with the intentions of letting humans know how the real world is (Allegory of the cave). He wanted us to see how we were actually living. Unfortunately, we are still living how the humans lived in the Allegory of the Cave. It surprises me how we are still trapped by the same things. The Allegory of the cave is a…

The film The Matrix follows the character Neo as he is thrust into a new reality much different than what he thought was true. In this new reality otherwise known as the real world it is revealed that the world that Neo was living in was actually a computer program known as the matrix. This program was created by robotic machines who harvest bodies (of the people in the program) for an energy source. The film follows Neo and others who have been freed from the matrix, as they rebel against the…

In the beginning gods roamed the earth changing all the flaws they found within the lonesome planet. All the gods would look down upon their throne and see all the flaws that the earth held within. Not one major god took it upon themselves to change what needed to be changed. So the small gods went out and did their dirty work. They changed the tides of the ocean, the time of the sunset, and showed the humans a new way of living life. When all was said and done the humans were still lonely. The…

“Greed Machine” Most of us have heard of, or viewed the science fiction movie The Matrix. One of the characters, Neo is given a choice by another character, Morpheus to choose between two pills, a red pill and a blue pill. Morpheus explains “After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” (The Matrix) When…

When Morpheus first shows Neo the real world he says to him, “Welcome to the desert of the real.” The world as Neo knows it does not exist and is merely a construction by machines. Life inside the Matrix is similar to that of the end of the 20th century yet it is a computer generated dream world built to keep humans under control in order to change them into energy. While connected to the Matrix humans are none the wiser about the fact that what they perceive to be reality is actually just a…

Of course, not all media response was positive. Numerous shootouts and murders were alleged to have been linked to the release of the film, most notably the devastating Columbine high school massacre in 1999 just weeks after the film was released (Does 'The Matrix' Inspire the Disturbed). The media not only has its tendrils firmly wrapped around the message of the film, but the narrative following it. In this way, it controls the mental capital, the very desire to consume media. When Neo takes…

Introduction As stated by Goodale, (2007, p. 56) any recurrent element or technique in writing has a symbolic significance. For instance, most of the authors make use of the recurrent imagery to produce the aspect of mood or impression. How the author repeatedly use imagery for the above purpose while making the story meaningful is always interesting. Similarly, from the reading “The Matrix” by Larry and Andy Wachowski, we can see this aspect of recurrent imagery, which seems to have achieved…

What is reality? This seems to be an easy question to answer but it isn’t. Philosopher through time had spend their entire lives questioning themselves between what is real or what is not real. There are so many different version of reality that they don’t know which is which. Instead, philosophers define reality as the state of things that could actually exist through imagination but whether or not it’s comprehensible depending on the person’s perspective. In the movie, “The Matrix’’, a man…

The Matrix is a film that challenges the genuine and the module of a complicated, false cyber-based reality. Before the character Thomas Anderson, also known as Neo, finds said realism in the film, Morpheus, the leader of a group of rebels, presents him a very intriguing question, “Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?” (Wachowski). This…

In Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, Dr. Dee displays the theme of obsession through his desires for Morpheus’ dream ruby (Gaiman np). The initial illustration of this occurs through the use of significant colour relationships between Dr. Dee and the ruby itself. For instance, where lead colourist, Daniel Vozzo renders Dr. Dee in flat brown tones, he instead colours the dream ruby in a vibrant red (see figure one) (Gaiman np). As Scott McCloud notes in Understanding Comics, vibrant colours such…