Its been dubbed as just another high budget sci fi. On the contrary The Matrix could very well teach us something about ourselves, and where we are headed.
Hundreds of sinister, black towers fill the landscape. Each tower containing thousands of glowing orbs. Each orb containing a single human being, whom is being used as. a power plant!.
A scene from the highly popular science fiction film, The Matrix? You bet.
The dismal future for humanity? Lets hope not.
Technology appears to be growing almost exponentially. What was conceivable only by creative science fiction writer's decades ago is now available in almost any western home. One could go as far as saying that some of these science fiction writers got it right. That they actually predicted technologies that came true.
So, if we where to listen to our modern science fiction texts, what has the future got install for us? Wonder drugs that cure every disease known to man, or maybe a robot that cleans your room while doing your homework. .
No, it doesn't look like it, but don't feel disappointed; you"re yet to hear the bad news. It seems that the current science fictions predict, well, the end of humanity, as we know it.
I say, as we know it, because it's not quite the apocalypse, not quite. It might have already happened, as The Matrix would have you believe.
Imagine that you are really encased in a gooey orb, in those towers that I mentioned earlier. In the physical world, your real body is generating power for super intelligent robots. Meanwhile, the world that you are in, the magazine that you are reading, the eyes that you are using to read it are all false. A dream world, a virtual reality named the Matrix. It is fed into your mind by a plug, and keeps you from knowing the real truth.
Yes, you could very well be living in a dream world. If your real eyes where to open, then beyond your gooey orb is a dark world. It is humanity's nightmare, humanity's dystopia.
Charles Dicken's Bleak Houses "Ms. ... This shows that even the main characters know that she doesn't care about her own children, just about whatever new crusade she can take up. ... The earliest example we see of this is with Miss Flite. ... It's a world of indifference to the suffering of children. ... But mostly, it's the real world of Charles Dickens, and not a book. ...
Charles Dickens worked with many complicated ideas and it is shown in Bleak House in more than one instance. ... It is an attack on the city, and Bleak House did very well in attacking London and what transpired within its walls in terms of government and social ideas. ... Bleak House can be placed under the title of "urban gothic", and this opening passage has all the qualities of the classic Gothic forms, only updated for the times. ... Setting, in these types of novels, is integral to the story, and the same goes for Bleak House, which is why this opening passage is so important. ...
To Kill a Mockingbird is essentially a bleak novel Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is a comprehensive, tragic and overwhelming novel, but it is not essentially bleak. ... Many things happen during the novel that may make it seem to be bleak. ... The responsibility is placed on the reader because of feelings of guilt and sadness for Tom's death; it makes the reader want to change the world due to Maycomb's mistakes. ... When Tom Robinson dies To Kill a Mockingbird takes on a whole new level. ... Harper Lee uses this guilt to inflict a responsibility onto the reader; she mak...
Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World both explore the concept In the Wild through different forms. Both present a dystopian future with a bleak vision of the world. ... In complete contrast to Blade Runner, Brave New World presents to us an ordered, immaculately clean, sterile environment. ... Soma is a drug administered to the masses of Brave New World, which is considered an "impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds. ... Huxley's character, Mond, reflects the Deckard character of Blade Runner for Brave New World who is also ...
Stylistic Analysis of a Passage from "Bleak House" In this selection from the "Bleak House", Mr. Dickens effectively uses cohesion, independent clauses, and lexical sets to set up his story. This passage flows very smoothly with his transitions from one sentence to another. Throughout the first p...
In order to counter the unreality of Ibsen and the bleakness of Chekhov, John M. Synge has chosen a seemingly unbelievable story to create his realist masterpiece, The Playboy of the Western World. ... Yet, as Synge identifies himself in the preface, these elements in combination are extremely effective in showing the life of the peasantry; more so than any bleak or so-called "real" story (in the manner of Ibsen) could. The problem with showing the peasant class in a bleak manner is that, by virtue of their position, the audience knows their life is bleak in terms of money. ... But the happ...
Certainly such a voice is largely excluded from those of Bleak House. ... His influence certainly touches elements of Bleak House. ... That they lack this intergration makes their potential to take their revenge from the world that has bread them all the more poignant. ... Their perception of the world, shaped by their experience, has been one in which they have learnt the hunted, hounded persistently to "move on". ... (Morris, 1991: 95) However, as a result of this failure Jo often percieves the world as harsh and unwelcoming. ...
Brave New World Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwells's Nineteen Eighty-four are the most influential futuristic novels of the 20th century (Firchow 83). ... In his forward to the 1946 edition of Brave New World, Mr. ... The essay Brave New World Revisited was written by Aldous Huxley in 1958- twenty- seven years after the publication of Brave New World. ... In Brave New World Revisited he describes himself as less optimistic than he was when writing Brave New World in 1931. ... One of the slogans the citizens of the World State are conditioned with is: "Fine to thi...
MacLeod1 Brave New World Literary Essay Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a futuristic story of a dystopian society that has rid itself of instability through science and politics, as well as the sacrifice of certain cultural values. Although the concept of this new world seems ideal, the author portrays it cynically. ... The new world revolves around the main elements of capitalist consumerism and the economy. ... The secularism of the new world is depicted contemptuously. ... The new world is based on a utopian philosophy. ...