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Create a 3 page essay paper that discusses Analytical Essay on The Matrix Reloaded: the Choice to be Deceived.

The Matrix is not a myth because everything expressed by Wachowski has been discovered thousands years ago. Wachowski brothers just collected and extracted this knowledge modernizing it for a wide audience. Alexandra Lazar states that the idea of "formlessness of chaos" can be found in: "Chinese and the Babylonian creation stories" (Lazar, 2004). She illustrates that "the dragon represents the principle of order, which emerges from chaos. In Babylonian myth, the Goddess Tiamat together with other early gods embodied the various faces of chaos" (Lazar, 2004). In general, every universal religion has such binary oppositions: good-evil, chaos-order, hell-paradise, etc. Probably, the fact that Matrix is based on binary opposition helps to explain why it is so successful in our society. Everything around us is based on this concept: love-hate. truth-lie, etc.

On the other hand, the Matrix retrieved great knowledge which most of people fail to see. We live in a structured world, which becomes a Matrix for us, and we unable to change it (or at least see "the reality"). The structure of state, government, bureaucratic system creates a Matrix like its movie prototype. "The Matrix trilogy" is so popular because our generation feels like robots or machines who "conquered" by bureaucratic system of the world order and "in order to break free from this ominous and quantifying 'real' we would need to ask further questions about defining links that 'divide and conquer" (Lazar, 2004).

In the article, Lazar underlines that: "power in itself is deceptive as it is based on a paradox: it allows the taste of truth/knowledge but causes its own end (and arguably the end of truth/knowledge)" (Lazar, 2004). This philosophical idea can be found in stoicism, and corresponds with the notion of "aporia" and dialectical exercise. For instance, "in "Parmenides" the aporia means the form that the sensible and intelligible worlds are incorrigibly separated and also are not separated, in that each side has the other in it" (Doull, n.d.). This idea runs through the Matrix trying to uncover the truth of reality, but the heroes rewrite this knowledge showing that 'there is no spoon", so what Again, the views are faced with the binary opposition which creates "quasi-myth" of reality.

Primarily, the characters in the Matrix represent as archetypes. For instance, an archetype of Neo, embodies the features of humans who "blind" and unable to see the truth, "we have agreed to depart the coded reality in search of bigger knowledge/power" (Lazar, ,2004). On the other hand, Neo is the main hero, the Chosen One, who is looking for "reality". Morpheus can be interpreted as an archetype of "collective unconscious", which hides "the truth of reality". At the same time, Morpheus is just a hero who tries to set Neo on the right track. "The virus-like" (Lazar, 2004) Agent Smith is an archetype of chaos who ruins everything on his way. As a character of the movie he is opposed to the "good characters".

The plot of the movie is based on polar opposites who often aspired to realize the ideal of reality. In their doctrine, human beings have an instinct or a drive toward what is real which is impeded by the barriers of nature and custom.