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This is a 5 page paper discussing the film “The Matrix” as a dystopia. The 1999 Wachowski brothers’ film “The Matrix” reflects the most severe fears and anxieties within today’s society in regards to a futuristic world as a “dystopia”. Opposite of More’s idealistic world portrayed in his work “Utopia”, the literary term “dystopia” refers to a “bad place”. Since the industrial revolution and more recently the computer and information revolution, society’s fears of possible negative results from growing technological achievements have been reflected in literature and cinema. While currently cyber-technology, that which is related to the computer world and artificial intelligence, is being promoted as a positive element within society in that humans are able to access free information and share information on a global scale, the film “The Matrix” portrays more so that element not promoted within technological circles, that is, the negative and de-humanizing aspects of cyber-technology which robs human of their individuality from a physical and mental perspective and uses humans for the proliferation and eventual dominance of artificial intelligence.
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futuristic world as a "dystopia". Opposite of Mores idealistic world portrayed in his work "Utopia", the literary term "dystopia" refers to a "bad place". Since the industrial revolution and more
recently the computer and information revolution, societys fears of possible negative results from growing technological achievements have been reflected in literature and cinema. While currently cyber-technology, that which is related
to the computer world and artificial intelligence, is being promoted as a positive element within society in that humans are able to access free information and share information on a
global scale, the film "The Matrix" portrays more so that element not promoted within technological circles, that is, the negative and de-humanizing aspects of cyber-technology which robs human of their
individuality from a physical and mental perspective and uses humans for the proliferation and eventual dominance of artificial intelligence. M.H. Abrams in
his text "A Glossary of Literary Terms" discusses the use of the terms "utopia" and its relatively recent antonym "dystopia". "Utopia" originated from Sir Thomas Mores book "Utopia" written in
1515 which played on the two Greek words of "outopia" meaning "no place" and "eutopia" meaning "good place" and "the utopia" began to "signify the class of fiction which represents
an ideal, nonexistent political state and way of life" (Abrams, 1999). Science fiction became a popular genre which was best demonstrated within the works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells
and explored "the marvels of discovery and technology". The term "dystopia" ("bad place") has come to represent a futuristic world contrary to the idealistic portrayed in Verne and Wells and
instead it is "applied to works of fiction which represent a very unpleasant and imaginary world, in which ominous tendencies of our present social, political and technological order are projected
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