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Matrix Essay Research Paper Justin WalkerEnglish 1A8850

Matrix Essay, Research Paper


Justin Walker


English 1A


8-8:50 M-TR


10-22-00


The Matrix: Our Perception On Reality


Do we as human beings believe that we live in a society controlled only


by what we think is real? Do we honestly think that our life is placed in a


world where we control everything that happens? I simply believe the human


race is scared of the thought that we could possibly be just a fixture wrapped


inside another layer of life and manipulated to think we are the ones in power


of the choices we make. When society brings out these questions we refuse to


believe them. We are though fascinated by the comments, but yet in our mind


we discard them and think of those things as just far fetched ideas of


someone?s imagination. Are we scared of what reality could be? Or do we


really believe these things to be just tales? Reality in my mind exists as far as


our imagination can take us. I like to believe it is ones own choice to


contemplate what reality is, but then again does society play a part in this


decision? The 1999 film The Matrix demonstrates how we are concerned


with our perception on reality.


The Matrix shows us a different outlook on life and what it possibly


could be. Neo ( a character in the movie), receives a dose of the unbelievable


and is given the choice to explore what reality really is. He of course has to


adapt to this state of mind and decide what he believes. He is constantly


asked if the things he used to love really are what society says they are or if


they are just figments of his imagination. This is true though. What is a


hamburger? Society placed a name on it but is it really a hamburger? How do


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we really even know what a hamburger is? Society has always been scared


of the unknown. Once something is discovered it must go through cycles and


tests before we can accept it. Of course once we do accept it we place a tag


on it. We want to believe discoveries to be explained and understood, but


how do really understand something if say we can not see it, or taste it, or feel


it. We ask question but sometimes we do not receive answers. We live only


on what we can see physically and not on what we cannot see or yet even


understand. In the Matrix it brings out these questions that ponder on in our


minds. We do not take the initiative to understand what really might exist.


Instead we get our ideas and thoughts from what others tell us. In the Matrix


theres a scene where Neo is being reprogrammed like a computer. His


programming consists of a variety of new skills in which he never knew in the


society that he used to operate in. This brings up the question, Could we


really be just a type of protocol that consists of programs that society has


installed upon us? We of course would never believe anything like that could


ever happen because we in our physical state have never experienced


something like that. Though what about what goes on while were dreaming?


Do we have the power to control what we dream? During this state of mind


something could possibly be installing new programs in our mind and we


would never know it. These are questions I leave up to you to decide.


Another question that comes to mind is, Do we really believe that one


day genetic engineering will be able to take the place of all human duties?


This question scares society very much so. We want to believe that since we


made the machines that we ca

n control them. You have to think though, if


there smart enough to carry all the resonsibitlites of humans, could they


possibly


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one day program themselves? The human race might easily permit itself to


drift into a passion of such dependence on the machine that it would have no


choice but to accept all of the machines decisions (Joy,2). This is indeed a


scary factor. Just like the Matrix demonstrated how Neo was programmed by


a machine. He performed all his tasks and duties by what the machines


installed in him. The Greatest challenge Neo faced in the movie was


accepting what the truth really was. All along we learned that the world he


once lived in was all along controlled by machines and it was his duty being


the chosen one to destroy those machines controlling this make believe world.


Biological species almost never survive encounters with superior species


(Joy, 2). If that is to be true how would society fight against a false reality if


they don?t control it? Are perception on what reality is, is really vague in


some cases. The Matrix brings out fears in our society. Most us though are


not given the chance like Neo to even know how to go about discovering


what reality really is.We try to hide these questions and continue to believe


only the physical aspects which we encounter in life.


Other scenes in the movie show us being born in mass quantities like


farming. Nobody remembers being born……..nobody really asks questions as


to why they are born with talents in which they didn?t conceive from their


parents. Maybe these are questions we should ask ourselves. How long will


we continue to believe what society has placed upon us? Will death give us


the answers to all these things or will we one day be given the chance to fully


understand everything? We though believe and understand we are born in the


womb of our mother. We have seen and witnessed this birth with our own


eyes, though just not our own birth. It is much easier for society to swallow


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things in which are not unknown. Still again we are fascinated with the idea


of the unknown.


Neo does not allow himself to believe he is the chosen one to administer


this new outlook of reality and uncover the truth behind the Matrix till the


very end. He is told over and over by the superior Morphius ( leader of Neos


ne founded environment). He challenges Morphius even though Morphius


tells him that he is the one. All it takes Neo freeing his mind to uncover the


truth behind the Matrix. All along he finds out he has been living in the


Matrix his whole life. Life slowly forms, then creatures aspire which creates


intelligence, along with survival which develops technology (Sagan, 9). This


is to be believed how life evolves and creates a society. Whether not it to be


true, it has formed our perception of reality based on the things that we know.


Though all these ideas aspire through movies and stories, the Matrix is a


great example of how we demonstrate concern about our perception on


reality. We ponder with these ideas though of course don?t actually believe


them. It does how ever bring up a fear that the unknown could possibly


happen. Time though will continue to slowly change our perception over and


over. back in the early 1800?s people thought trips to the moon were just tall


tales and could never happen. We need to be careful of what we fear, for our


reality could one day change for the good or the bad.

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