Who Is The Red Pill In The Matrix: Myth Or Reality?

The choice between the red pill and the blue pill is ultimately a choice between comfort and familiarity or the enlightenment of knowledge. This is the ultimatum that Neo, the main character of the science fiction motion picture, The Matrix, must decide between. The fate of each pill can only be somewhat what foreseen, the blue pill will return him to the life he currently knows and the red pill will expose him to the truth and reality he seeks. Although the movie is purely fiction, it holds validity and offers insight to how we as a society would react if the same question was presented to us. Knowing only the fate of each pill and the words Morpheus provided:“Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more,” the viewer can pose the
Although this could be said, logically, it makes more sense to stay within the comfortable reality rather than to possibly risk one’s life in the reality offered in the red pill. Morpheus stated in the movie that if one chose the blue pill they would go back to the life they know and choose what to believe. One could find comfort in this statement, for they could choose to believe that the matrix does exist, but know that the risk was too high for the unknown outcome. The question doesn’t come down to which can offer the truth, but which seems more reasonable in the context, the blue pill is the most reliable, for if the reality Neo knew was exposed as untrue, the same could hold true for Morpheus’ reality.
Ultimately, both pills are offering insight into the reality in which one lives. Although the red pill could show the reality that Neo had always been searching for, based on what Morpheus said to Neo, it does not give a valid reason for choosing risk over safety. It makes one understand understand how flexible the idea of reality truly is and how unethical it would be to make a decision based on the idea that reality is a set state if