The Matrix Greek Mythology Analysis

The movie “The Matrix” is far more than the average action superhero movie. This film makes you question the difference of reality and illusion, and it makes people raise their eyebrows due to curiosity of morals and philosophical questions to the nature of reality. There are many arguments concerning what type of movie “The Matrix “is. Many critics see this film as being very religious; but are The Matrix a religious film or is it just philosophy and skeptics? The 1999 film is a combination of mythology, computer science and different religions. This symbols of Greek and Roman Mythology plays out heavily through the film and its characters. For example, the character “The Oracle” the name originates from Greek history. The definition of oracle is “a shrine where a prophetic god is consulted”. People come and ask the oracle questions, but oracle would only reply to questions in riddles that they would have to figure out the answer to later. In the film The Oracle has the words “know thyself” in her kitchen. The Oracle puts strong emphasis on knowing yourself in the film. That phrase is connected to Greek mythology because “know thyself” is engraved in
The character Thomas Anderson, also known as “Neo” in the film was “The One”. Before Thomas Anderson met Morpheus he was living a double life; in one life he was a computer programmer and in the other life he was a hacker named Neo. The quotation "You seem to be living two lives, Mr. Anderson," led to consider the duality of Christ. Similarly, Neo lived as both a devotee of the system Thomas, an worker of a valued firm and as a hacker in conflict to the system. It is interesting that Christ was considered a criminal by numerous of people, and ultimately put to death as such. As Neo trailed his "hacker nature", his true powers as the savior started to become evident