How the Matrix fits the monomyth?
The main character in The Matrix, Thomas Anderson Neo plays the role of hero. He went through the hero’s journey, which fits the three main stages of monomyth —departure, initiation and return.
Departure: Neo receives a call to adventure while he falls asleep. He receives a message that asked him to wake up and to follow the white rabbit. He finally accepts the call to adventure by follow a woman that has a white rabbit tattoo on her arm. Neo then meets Trinity and she leads Neo along the way to seek the answer that Neo has been looking for. He undergoes a rebirth process after he is connected to wires and tube which bring him to another world.
Initiation: Neo undergoes a series of trials. He receives training to uncover his potential. After he met Oracle, an old woman who helps the freed humans with her foresight and wisdom, he starts his hero’s journey — to discover the truth. Neo fights together with his crew member along the way. He even decided to risk his own life in order to save Morpheus.
Return: Neo wakes up from the matrix programme and returns to the real world. He said that he is going to show all the people a world without controls and rules, a world where anything is possible.
How The Matrix fits Plato’s Allegory of the Cave?
In The Allegory of the Cave, Plato describes a scene that all prisoners have their legs and necks chained. They can only see shadows reflected on the wall and they don’t know what is going on at the world outside. Hence they believe what they see in the cave is the reality. Only a prisoner that was freed from the cave know the truth after he struggling through confusion and pain.
In The Matrix, only a few people who are connected to the Matrix know what is happening in the real world. The people that have not been disconnected from the virtual world live inside a computer programmed are the prisoners. Neo, after he is struggling to adapt the brand new environment, he is introduced to a transformation of life after he meets with Morpheus and agrees to follow him.
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