Saturday, 28 July 2012

How is the Matrix fits monomyth and the Plato's allegory of the caves?


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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