In the text “Oedipus the king” the difference between truth and reality go hand in hand. Once the Oedipus wanted to know the truth about his father’s murder and his marriage to his own mother was brought to light, it was no wonder he could not believe it. Similar to what follows in the matrix when neo is still in the phase of confusion and denial about what’s the truth and what’s fiction puts him in a particular situation as such where he wonders himself what’s the truth and if he really wants to know what reality really is. In the real world for neo its mayhem, destruction and nuclear and biological war and being enslaved by the machines that once helped us at some point in our lives. As in Oedipus when the truth was told to him by the oracle he believed the oracle was just full of lies and believed the oracle was treacherous somewhat like what neo thought about the matrix in beginning it couldn’t be real. Once the whole story was put into play there was no stopping the flow of truth to Oedipus’ ears, knowing that he murdered his own father and married his own mother for the fact that he was an infant obsessed with what his mother had to offer him.
When offered the chance to be oblivious to the outside world and not ever know the answers to what the matrix really is Neo decides to continue his exploration of the truth but yet encountering various particular situations along the way. When brought to the room and seen all the powerful children but not aware that any of them were worthy of what was being offered he then wanted to know why. Unlike the text with Oedipus the king, the truth was more of a discoverable key factor for neo in order for him to find the truth he was more put in the truth to figure it out on his own and yet guided throughout the whole situation. When put in a shot out and being able to dodge bullets and being faster than the average man, puts into perspective that this is not the world of truth but a world created to hide the truth from the people in which can’t accept it or the factors that may bring the truth to light and expose all. In noticing what he was actually capable of doing and knowing that he himself had control of what he could do he decided to be on the outside of the matrix and living around it as time went by and wanting to strive to figure out what alternate truths lies beyond in this dystopia
Oedipus was a text in which there was no way for him to avoid what was already written in his fate, but in the matrix he in my opinion made his own fate and decided to do things in a different fashion, whereas, Oedipus no matter what he did his fate would always be written because due to his graphic nature and personal self being. Regardless of what would occur the truth of what had really occurred in his life with the slaughter of his son by thieves and the conspiracy with his father’s murder and conflict of truth when he married his mother was just too much to bare. As for neo he decided to continue on his search for answers and continue to unfold the mysteries of the matrix. Oedipus on the other hand, with the fact of ignoring the truth and prophecy from the oracle he tried to make it where it would work to his advantage and would get him what he needed, the answer. Like in the matrix regardless of the fact that neo knows he’s not the “one” he still risks his life to save Morpheus it was instinct of free will in action to save another person, Oedipus has the same situation in which he decides to send his son away only to be approached with the bitter truth of his sons slaughter to the hand of thieves. Regardless making his worse dreams reality because of his denial to what he had to face in life was not what he expected to be nor was his childhood either in regards to the murder of his own father because of jealousy and control of his obsession.
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