ree. Both characters are like slaves, one is helpless and is taken to a different world, the prisoners are imprisoned and they have accepted that as a reality. Morpheus even tells Neo, “ You are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind”.

The difference between Neo and prisoners is that men are set free by the people controlling them and when they see the real reality they are surprised and take time to adjust to it. Neo himself begins to question his own reality without even knowing there was an alternate reality. He chooses the true reality and returns to help those who have been deceived like him since childhood.

On the other hand, Descartes evil demon is vividly realized in the Matrix films as the artificial intelligence that forces a virtual reality on humans. Both begin to question the current reality, for Descartes, the sensations in his dreams were vivid enough to convince him the dreams were real, the humans who are pulled into the Matrix have no idea that their sensations are false, created artificially instead of arising from actual experiences. They are both plagued by a dream state reality. For Neo, it was controlled by a super computer and for Descartes by his perception of evil demons. But in both the cases, their current sense cannot be trusted. Descartes stated, “perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep”. This statement matches with what Neo felt since he could not differentiate between dream and reality. There is a point where he asks Morpheus if what he’s dreaming is the same as the reality he is living in. The major contrast is that Neo was ultimately able to find his true reality where as desecrates was never able to find it, as he began to question his own reason.

In the end, all of these stories makes us doubt the world we know. Are we actually aware of the world or it’s a false reality that we have been thrown into? The text tells us that there is a possibility that we are seeing things from a general eye and makes us question our existence. The movie is a practical implementation of the text where a fellow human has the same question in mind and he goes all the way to find out the answer(which he does).

I am not sure if we are ready to face an alternate reality because I believe that the reality I perceive is true. I do hold on to my belief but I won’t be able to put them into reason other than “I know it’s true”. A question I am left with after going through the text and the movie is that “do we really know our world”. I hope ju