2. Plot: Neo learns the true meaning of reality when he wakes up from the illusion the Matrix has created. Soon, he begins to realize that his destiny and the fate of all humankind are inextricably linked together. Plot: Neo learns the true meaning of reality when he wakes up from the illusion the Matrix has created. Soon, he begins to realize that his destiny and the fate of all humankind are inextricably linked together.

3.  Cast of Characters:  Neo  Trinity  Morpheus  Agent Smith  Cypher  The Oracle

4.  Truth vs. Reality  References a variety of religious thought: Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism, etc.

5.  Names (Trinity, Zion, Nebuchadnezzar)  Thomas Anderson (aka Neo)  The Judas type  Rebirth / born again  Acting on faith  Bondage and slavery  Blindness  Knowing a path and walking it  Opposites in good and evil  Resurrection

6.  “Free your mind”  Hedonism  Relativism  Evolution

7.  Reality is an illusion  Reality is self-created  Reality is self-existent  Reality is created ultimately by something that is self-existent You cannot have an illusion without an objective contrast.