I need help creating a thesis and an outline on The Matrix and Religion: Christianity or Buddhism. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is requ

I need help creating a thesis and an outline on The Matrix and Religion: Christianity or Buddhism. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. The Matrix contains most religions of the world, from Christianity to Buddhism, Greek Mythology and even non fiction books like Simulacra and Simulacrum by Baudillard, and Even Kevin Kelly.

The whole movie talks about waking up. The people are hooked onto the Matrix and do not know what is happening. This is true in many levels. In Buddhism, we can call this enlightenment. In Christianity, maybe we can call this as suffering for the sins. To be saved from the sins of the world, Jesus must sacrifice himself. In the Matrix, Neo is Jesus Christ and that’s what we see throughout the movie: references towards Christ and the Bible throughout the film.

The first part of the movie deals with Neo, a master hacker, hacking something off the internet. It led him deeper to it and eventually followed someone called the White Rabbit. There, in that place, he was waken up by letting him choose if he’d have a blue pill or the red pill, and when he did, he was devastated to see that the rest of the world’s population is asleep, just like him before.

This is an allegory to the sinners of the world aspect of the Christian belief. In Christianity, people are considered as sinners and as thus, they are not allowed to go to heaven unless they are cleansed and purified. To do that, they need the Son of God, or the One.

In the movie, Neo is always referred to as The One. His name is also Neo, which means New. With that, we can say that he is the new savior. If he is indeed the new savior though, how can we infer that visually.

First off, in the movie, Neo is the main character, and that is the sign that he is an important character. However, what sets him apart from the rest, and like Jesus Christ, is the fact that he is a bit naïve and innocent to the point that he is always being guided. He is not the most powerful being, but he learns and he stumbles. He relies on other people to deliver his role as the savior.