Compare And Contrast Matrix And Descartes

When reading The Matrix, Plato, and Descartes, it reminds us of the reality we knew before Christ. It can sometimes seem like nothing is missing for some time, and when you come to know Him through His Word, there can often be three reactions. When confronted with the Truth everyone has the opportunity to make their own choice, one person can prefer to go back to their own truth they knew, go in search of other truths, or they can choose to accept the Truth and not want anything else than to go and tell the rest. The option and the choice resonate with what we read in these short stories. Four men in each story were all under their own reality they had each been going through life, some with doubts of whether there was more, and others completely unaware of anything else other than what they were living.
For example, in the Matrix, when Cypher was woken up to reality, he did not last long, he preferred to have his memory wiped blank and go back to the virtual reality they were each given. Neo and in Plato on the other hand, when they woke up to reality, they could not do anything else but to accept it. It was what they had been missing the whole time. For them their old reality was nothing but a lie, and the new reality was far more than they could have imagined. For them, there was no denying they were in the real reality. Neo, in The Matrix, did not want anything else than to join Morpheus and go to tell the rest. Descartes was the only one that tried to understand reality, as a result, he was faced with doubt, He doubted the reality to which he had woken up too, and figured if what he knew was not reality, then there must be more out there. Descartes reviewed everything he knew through his senses and could not make sense of the reality that was given to him. In the end he preferred to live in uncertainty of what reality really