In class Essay

The truth is always hard for humans to accept. They later find out that leaving the fake world and entering the world of reality is worse. Human lives turn out to be a dystopia in most of the cases. When it comes on judging the two processes of giving up illusions and embracing the truth, I would say that the movie “matrix” is more accurate.


In the movie “matrix” Morpheus shows Neo the world of reality is a dystopia, the machines have generated the world and using humans as their batteries i.e. humans are their slaves. No matter if you’re in Neo’s position or not, when you come to know the truth it gets painful to lead whole life with it.


When you are a baby girl you hear about fairy tales and the most famous one is Cinderella. From there you start to imagine a dream scenario about your future life where your prince charming will be waiting for you in his wisdom. You will be his queen and a happy life ever after. But gradually when you start to grow up and observe the world in different positions, you come out of the fake world with some broken desires. You start to realize that in life no one is made perfect, all you have to do are adjustments throughout your life.


“Curiosity Kills the Cat” this phrase suits Oedipus the King. Oedipus was so curious to find out the killer of Laius (250). When teiresias prophecy started to point Oedipus as the faulter, then he disbelieved it, he said he can’t believe a blind man (330-400). His wife Jocasta prevented him from knowing the truth; she said that prophecy doesn’t come true always. For Laius it didn’t he was killed by a group of foreigners (850-870). But Oedipus didn’t stop here; he called for the servant to appear. The servant finally took off the curtains of fake world and showed him the reality. Oedipus is the one who killed his father; his wife is his mother, and the children he is claiming to be his in reality are his siblings. At last Oedipus lose everything at the end (1470). When I came to know my truth, like Oedipus I even lost every hope and desires of my life. My life even turned down to be a question for myself. In other words, a dystopia that took place.


However truth is, it will come out one day no matter what you do. It will be painful and heart breaking, but you have to accept it and keep moving on with this pain hidden in your heart.