Matrix and Animal Farm
Many texts styles from different composers around the world create similar themes and morals throughout their forms of text. ‘The Matrix’ (1999), directed by the Wachowski Brothers, and the allegory ‘Animal Farm’ (first published in 1945), written by George Orwell, both convey the same themes and morals. The values presented by both Orwell and the Wachowski Brothers are abuse of power, lack of privacy and manipulation of people by the use of propaganda.
The use of power can be taken for granted; it can be used for good or evil. In the movie, ‘The Matrix’ and the novel ‘Animal Farm’ they both overuse power for evil and it ends in horrible consequences. In the novel ‘Animal Farm’ the pigs are against the humans, they convince all the other animals to turn against them in the end they become the people they dreaded from the start. George Orwell uses strong irony in this novel that the pigs became the people they thought hated. ‘Pigs are brainworkers’, yet they choose the wrong decision in the end. In the film ‘The Matrix’ the agents have so much power but they use it for all the wrong reasons. The agents are enforcing their power over the people and Neo is the messiah figure and the one with the chosen power and uses it to counter the evil power of the Agents. They have the power to manipulate people by getting into their bodies because they are plugged in. ‘If ‘real’ is simply what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain’. People they manipulate are forced to follow their orders from the agents they reassure people that they are disease and they’re the only fix, A metaphor ‘you’re a plague and we are the cure’ was used to show how much power the agents have that they are powerful enough to cure a disease. ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘The Matrix’ both have powerful characters to make the audience members feel weak and powerless and sympathise with the characters competing with the powerful men such as Boxer and
The use of power can be taken for granted; it can be used for good or evil. In the movie, ‘The Matrix’ and the novel ‘Animal Farm’ they both overuse power for evil and it ends in horrible consequences. In the novel ‘Animal Farm’ the pigs are against the humans, they convince all the other animals to turn against them in the end they become the people they dreaded from the start. George Orwell uses strong irony in this novel that the pigs became the people they thought hated. ‘Pigs are brainworkers’, yet they choose the wrong decision in the end. In the film ‘The Matrix’ the agents have so much power but they use it for all the wrong reasons. The agents are enforcing their power over the people and Neo is the messiah figure and the one with the chosen power and uses it to counter the evil power of the Agents. They have the power to manipulate people by getting into their bodies because they are plugged in. ‘If ‘real’ is simply what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain’. People they manipulate are forced to follow their orders from the agents they reassure people that they are disease and they’re the only fix, A metaphor ‘you’re a plague and we are the cure’ was used to show how much power the agents have that they are powerful enough to cure a disease. ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘The Matrix’ both have powerful characters to make the audience members feel weak and powerless and sympathise with the characters competing with the powerful men such as Boxer and