blog 8

Braining storming

illusion
reality

enlightened
good results and bad results
more ugly truth
matrix oedipus the king minority report

Oedipus the king- he lived in a cave which was happy life for him-the reality was worse than he thought
Matrix- every people believe that they live in a real world. But the fact was that they were controlled by the computer system which manipulates people’s thoughts and behaviors.

Minority Report: the reality also shows worse situation

           We have been through many issues such as, definition of free will and how much human can control their free will with determined future, or situations that trap us in a cave without any knowledge of reality and the outcome of the reality.  But, I think that the relationship between illusion and the fact is more interesting for me, because as we live in our lives, we often face that we used to live in a small cave and the reality turned out to be sometimes ugly or happy face. however, I believed that the reality of illusion mostly would be terrible in our lives.  throughout this semester, i also found many sources that showed me how much we live in a cave and the how the reality turns out to be dystopian world.  As I experienced the play Oedipus the King, the movie Matrix, and "Minority Report" these all deal with the theme of illusion and terrible reality. these all explain about how miserable results of reality can be when people come to the real life. for the oedipus, the reality for the king Oedipus was that he killed his father and married his mother. For the movie, "matrix", even if people in the movie thought that their lives in that society was all about it, but the fact was that they were controlled by computer system. Likewise, the movie "Minority Report" also shows that reality is worse than they believe.precogs system was not always perfect. when i think of our lives, people face dystopian world in many times as well. As we grow up, we face responsibilities of many things, or some problems that we even did not think about it when we were young.
This English composition class forced me to think many various aspects of things about enlightening from the illusion as well as different topic like free will.