In the Article Red Pill or Blue Pill: Is Ignorance Bliss? The authors Christine Cornell and Patrick Malcolmson states on the first paragraph how the two protagonists from the story "Alice in Worderland" and "The Matrix" have the same thing in common. Is that both of them are confuse in the beggining of the story and they are seeking answers. Both of them are giving tools to take if they want to continue seeking that answer in Alice is the magic drink and the cake and Neo is the Red or Blue Pill offered by Morpheus. The authors continue by explaining that Neo like Alice undergoes a series of experience which leave them wondering who they really are. Is it a dream or reality? They make a connection with Plato’s book The Republic “ The Allegory of the Cave” the famous account given by Socrates to his study Glaucon. For explain “ The Allegory of the Cave” is about liberation as the movie the Matrix meaning Neo is trying to escape that fake reality in the matrix world and wants to see the real truth that he sense in the beginning of the movie. The authors explain how the film and Plato/Socrates’ allegory are different in the way they portrayed the truth, in the film the truth is dark, ugly, and grim as Morpheus puts it “Welcome to the desert of real” and in Socrates the truth is beautiful. So the authors concludes with a character in the Matrix movie name Cypher stating that he wants to go back to the matrix and betraying the crew because he can’t live in the real world and he prefers a benign ignorance than knowing the truth.
Response to Red Pill or Blue Pill?
To be honest I prefer to take the blue pill so yes Ignorance is bliss. I really don’t want to live in a world that is dark and scary as portrayed in the movie the Matrix so called “the Real World”. To fight to survive, it’s a horrible reality that they have to face. Yes they know the truth but the cost it’s too great for me it is. I prefer living in the matrix a regular life, I know that’s a fake life but I will go insane if a minute I was living a normal life and then in a heartbeat be trying to save the world from machines. I understand Cypher and what he did to the crew of Morpheus. Yes Morpheus told him that he had a choice in wanting to stay or learning the truth (meaning leaving the Matrix) but how Morpheus spoke to them (all the people that escape the matrix) sounded like the truth is the light and the Matrix is dark and ugly. But in reality it’s the other way around. That’s not cool of him, he should of have told them or explain a little but how is the real world outside of the matrix. He just gave them a choice blue or red. So answering the question is Ignorance bliss? Well finding out that the real world is like an apocalyptic world I prefer being ignorance.
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