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A 6 page essay that discusses meaning in the Matrix saga. The writer argues that while the movies are escapist entertainment, they nevertheless say a great deal about a fundamental human characteristic, which is that individuals tend to look outside themselves, rather than within, for their answers and their salvation. Several key scenes are analyzed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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intelligence that threatens the race with extinction or continual captivity within a virtual reality prison. While the movie is escapist entertainment, it nevertheless says a great deal about a fundamental
human characteristic, which is that individuals tend to look outside themselves, rather than within, for their answers and their salvation. Early on in the movie, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), who
is ironically named for the Greek god of dreams, is the one who rouses Neo from his subconscious existence in the computer-generated "dream-world" that the Matrix machines have programmed humans
into accepting as reality (Kimball 175). He offers Neo a choice: the blue pill or the red pill (Kimball 175). The blue pill represents the choice of staying within the
only reality that Neo has ever known. The red pill means that Neo will "stay in Wonderland" and Morpheus will show him "how deep the rabbit-hole goes" (Kimball 175).
On a smaller and less dramatic scale, ordinary people are offered similar choices everyday. In other words, they are offered the choice of staying with the concepts, bias, and presumptions
with which they feel familiar, or taking the opposite course, and exploring new ideas, new horizons and ideas that are radically different from their own. Sometimes, new ideas are examined
and rejected, as older paradigms seem to fit closer with an individuals concept of reality. On the other hand, sometimes exploring new territory irrevocably changes the world perspective of the
individual forever and this is what happens to Neo. Morpheus explains that at the very beginning of the existence of this strange new reality, there was a man born
within the Matrix who possessed the ability to remake this virtual reality as he saw fit (Kimball 175). In other words, he learned to control the Matrix rather than having
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