Is Society's Way the Right Way?
Is Society’s Way the Right Way
The way society is formed creates hesitations within an individual to fulfill their self discovery. The Wachowski’s film The Matrix deals with a man living inside an illusion and alike everyone else he only knows the world as he sees it, until one day he receives a message from the matrix. He discovers not everything is how it appears and that there is much more to the world he lives in. Once Neo accepts the reality that everything he once knew was only an illusion he is given the task of bringing society to the truth. The Matrix creates an individual’s experience of life as they see it to be. It creates a world in which everyone is in uniform, causing people to conform to majority’s belief. When someone faces the idea that not everything is how it seems they may discover life outside of what they experienced. The world we trapped in is surrounded by rules society creates. Often times we are held back from our gaols due to fear of being different from the majority.
From the time a person is born till they die, they are constantly receiving new knowledge and learning from personal experiences. This shapes their identity, beliefs, and the way they view the world around them. The people who are trapped inside the illusion are still living their own lives however they are not aware that it is under a controlled type environment. Everything the matrix shows them helps them to interpret how the world runs. All they know is what the world says to be “right” and “wrong”. People teach themselves and observe what is going on around them to better follow the trend. As Morpheus tells Neo not everyone inside of the matrix is an agent however most people would not be ready to be unplugged because their mind would not be capable of handling the extreme shock of everything they once knew and experienced to be all just an illusion.
Individuals tend to be afraid of stepping outside their comfort zone and usually that falls under the way society does things. In the matrix everyone follows the unspoken rules on how the world runs. Not many people would be brave enough to question why things are done in a specific manners due to the fear of seeming strange or different. In the matrix everyone goes about their life in an orderly fashion. Going about life day to day clueless to the fact that everything is fake.
Humans use their senses to help determine what the difference what the difference is between what is real and what is an illusion. An individual's dominant sense is their vision, they take in what they are seeing and their mind puts it together. When Neo is sitting in the chair, he discovers a cracked mirror. Suddenly the mirror begins to transform and it no longer has a crack. Neo doesn’t believe what is happening because his mind is telling him that is impossible .