How is the Matrix fits monomyth and the Plato's allegory of
the caves?
There were three stages,which is (departure), (initiation)
and (return).
In first stage of departure, A computer
programmer is a secretly hacker kown as "Neo". A female hacker
named Trinity confirm that the man named Morpheus can help
him.Undeterred, Neo met with Morpheus and agreed to follow him by swallowing an
offered red pill. Neo as abruptly awakes in a liquid-filled vessel, connected
with thousands of peoples to an elaborate electrical structure.
Second stage of initiation,agents drug and interrogate
Morpheus attempt to learn his access codes to the mainframe computer, the
humans' subterranean refuge in the real world. Morpheus and Trinity use a
telephone to exit the Matrix, but Neo is ambushed. He stands his ground and
defeats Smith, and flees when the Agent possesses another body. Just
before reaching another exit, Neo is shot and killed by Agent Smith.
Third stage of return, with Neo back in the Matrix, dialing
a phone call promising that he will demonstrate to the people imprisoned in the
Matrix that "anything is possible." He hang the phone and flies into
the sky.
In Plato's Allegory of the Cave,the shadows reflected on the
wall and believed the shadows are real objects .
In Matrix, people lived in unreal world and carrying out
their daily activities as usual which they believe is reality.Both the Matrix
and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave had showed the innocence of humankind and the
unwillingness to accept the truth behind the “reality” that they believed.
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