Comparison of the Matrix and Ender's Game
There are many similarities between the motion picture, Matrix, and Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game. The most striking of these is the way the movie and the book begin. The first chapter of the book begins with a conversation between two IF agents about how one believes that ender is the one. Similarly, in the movie the first words are from Trinity, also stating her belief that Neo is “the one”. The theme of the “chosen one” who is destined to save the human race is dominant in both the movie and book.
Men that were later to become their instructors and teachers chose both Neo and Ender. For Ender that man was Colonel Graff and for Neo he was Morpheus, both of who believed in their pupils even when others had doubts.
Ender and Neo were uprooted from there normal lives (Ender was a student and Neo a programmer), by people who stood above ordinary men and women, and had the ability to watch them. In the book these people were part of a government group called the IF, International Fleet, and in the Matrix they were inhabitants of the Zion, the only humans left that were free of the slavery of the mind that is the Matrix. In both cases the life of the humans is threatened by something that is not human but very powerful. They are referred to as the “buggers” in Ender’s Game, and in the Matrix it is computers that turned against human beings.
Ender and Neo go through intensive training through the use of technology. They are given program, or games as they are referred to in the book), to prepare them for what is expected in the real war to save the human race. For their training, both had to travel else where, Ender to space on a spaceship and Neo to Zion, the only remaining
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...th the movie and the book have multiple matrices related with each other exactly the way matrices are related in mathematics. There are different dimensions of matrices in mathematics, and society alike, starting from single family and ending with multidimensional matrices of politics, religion,
entertainment, and countless others. All of these matrices are related with each other and with specific operations of individuals. The book and the movie demonstrate the interaction of multiple matrices, from single to multi-dimesional. It shows the destruction and the development of systems and the impact of one individual on the largest matrix, the human race.
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In conclusion both stories are similar in their ideas. The stories are about people searching for the truth so they can be free. At the end of Neos phone call is something that could have been said to the "puppeteers" in "The Cave." That he's going to show the people what they don't want them to see, A world without rules or control, a world without borders or boundaries and most importantly a world without them. There were many key points that I was able to relate and analyze in this story. I still have no doubt that this movie was based off Greek Philosophy and a great piece to choose. In the end both "The Allegory of the Cave" and The Matrix were both great stories or truth and freedom and what a person will do to find the truth and be free.
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