Teylor Parks Ms. Philip World Literature and Composition-Period 2 19 December 2013 Culminating Performance Task: Part B Since its emergence‚ literature has been defined by elaborate plotlines‚ skillful settings‚ and a notable theme. However‚ the most important aspect of a great story is the lead character. Protagonist Antigone and Brutus both exhibit unique characteristics that influence their motivations. In Sophocles’ greek tragedy Antigone‚ the title character is forced to make a decision
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Common Theme The theme of a hero’s journey is seen through many of our readings‚ especially in The Odyssey and Maus. Odysseus is seen as a strong figure throughout the entire epic poem through many circumstances. One such circumstance is when Odysseus confronts the Cyclops. “But even from there my courage‚ my presence of mind and tactics saved us all” (277). This particular event portrays one of the most difficult trials that Odysseus goes through because he must escape the cave‚ but is unable
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collodion process couldn’t of achieved . The staged image depicts a young girl dying of tuberculosis and her mourning family; her fiancé‚ mother‚ and sister surrounding her. This quickly became a debatable piece of photography‚ and some felt the theme and subject of death and grief ‚was not suitable for photography. People at the time were use to the idea of photographs as a recorded proof of incidents that took place during a certain time in reality‚ so to a lot of viewers‚ the staged “Fading
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The Matrix conveys beliefs that both philosophers‚ Plato and Descartes have in the idea of reality‚ through a computer generated “reality.” Plato and Descartes convey their ideas of reality in two diverse ways in their work. Descartes believes that our senses such as smelling‚ touching‚ tasting‚ hearing‚ and seeing should be questioned. Plato used Socrates and Glaucon to portray his beliefs that our reality could be explained as being simply shadows. In the film‚ The Matrix and both readings we
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In the 1999 blockbuster hit The Matrix an absence of a public sphere is expressed through three different dimensions of human consciousness. Neo‚ otherwise known as Thomas A. Anderson has always had some type of unorthodox feeling about the world he lives in and therefore is on a hunt for a cyber-program called “the matrix.” The rising action of the story doesn’t begin until a man who goes by the name of Morpheus concludes that Neo is the ‘One’ that can save the seemingly oblivious and asleep humans
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be seen depicted throughout history in sci-fi movies. In the particular movie entitled‚ The Matrix‚ directed and written by brothers Laurence and Andrew Wachowski in 1999. This film shows a new form of technology‚ not only in through the plot but also its special affects and symbols. The upcoming millennium also marked a perfect time to release such a complex film for the public viewing pleasures. The Matrix takes place nearly century ahead in the future. The human race is nothing‚ but virtual slaves
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University of Phoenix Material Film Matrix Worksheet 1. Complete a film matrix worksheet for each movie the team reviews by filling out each category shown and answering all of the questions below. 2 Create a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation (about 5-7 slides for week three‚ about 7-12 for week four). The grade for each assignment is based on the resulting PowerPoint presentations. Start with a given film’s name and its genre‚ describe its theme in one sentence‚ and describe the story
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Matrix and Plato’s Republic Plato is known to be one of the greatest philosophers of his time‚ and even still considered to be one of the greatest of today. Many of his works have been used to analyze and answer important philosophical questions and are even used today as the basis of different stories and movies. One example of the use of Plato’s philosophy is the movie The Matrix directed by the Wachowski brothers. The Matrix is a reenactment of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave with
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Composition I 3 October 2012 The Matrix and the Allegory of the Cave What if one were living through life completely bound and facing a reality that doesn’t even exist? The prisoners in Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave" are blind from true reality as well as the people in the movie The Matrix. They are given false images and they accept what their senses are telling them. They believe what they are experiencing is not all that really exists. Plato‚ the ancient Greek philosopher wrote "The Allegory
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Melissa A. Reeves Plato‚ Descartes‚ and The Matrix Essay 02/14/2014 Phil 201-B15 Liberty University Professor Ronald Kuykendall In comparing the movie The Matrix and the readings from Plato and Descartes‚ the major similarity found among the three is deception. It is the deception of the mind that these excerpts deal with. The idea of being in an illusion or reality is addressed. All three take into account sense perceptions. Also‚ all three have an outside influence that is controlling the
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