Introduction
At first sight the novel of classical realistic American literature, and contemporary cinematography fiction have absolutely nothing in common. But the fact is that, the feature, that the main characters – Holden Caulfield and Morpheus are searching for truth, and try to obtain it by every effort possible.
Main body
What is the Matrix? The movie just explains it as a dream world for people to live in without any understanding of the truth. What is actuality for Holden Caulfield? He suggests there is a feeling of a lack of actuality because of the fact that society is filled with a gang of phonies. In suggesting this, one can also note that Holden is also living in a dream world where people live in without any understanding of the truth. Thus, sequential perplexity plays an essential role in both J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and the Wachowski brothers The Matrix.
Holden is a skeptical 17-year-old boy living in a world concealed from the truth. He suggests that he knows the truth and everybody else has harmed regard and acts in a “phony” type way. Taking these facts of Holden into account, it is necessary to mention, that Holden is like Morpheus – the seeker of truth and reality. Holden Caulfield continually condemns religious considerations and lots of various aspects of it. All through the book he makes comments on Jesus and the Disciples for lots of times. About the Disciples he says, “Take the Disciples for instance. They annoy the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth”. He clarifies that his motive feeling this way is as he is an atheist. Nevertheless he also notes that he believes in Jesus but not the disciples. Frederick Gwynn and Joseph Blotner enlighten, “Jesus and Holden Caulfield truly love their fellows, particularly the poor in goods, appearance and soul. Holden not only gives $10 to the charity sisters in the station but is also disheartened by their insufficient breakfast and the notion that they will never be going wherever upscale for lunch”.
Morpheus leads active search for the truth, as his world is full of hazards and surprises. In his searches finds an assistant. In the first movie, Morpheus effectively finds and follows a pod-human named Thomas A. Anderson, a hacker who identifies himself Neo. Inspite of a narrow escape with Agents that detain, cross-examine, and place an inspection device on Neo, Morpheus and his crew find Neo. Morpheus offers Neo a selection of consuming a red pill, which would start a trace program to find Neo’s body in the real world and permit the crew to remove him, or a blue pill, which would leave Neo in the Matrix to live and suppose what he wants to suppose. The crew is capable to remove Neo’s body from the Matrix energy plant and regain him from the cold cesspools where the machines guard. Morpheus takes a risk in helping Neo escape from the Matrix. But in difference with Holden, Morpheus has his own religion – the religion of surviving in the world, where machines rule. He seeks the truth, which claims that humans should inhabit the world, but not machines and computers.
Conclusion
Finally, both find what they search for, but the essential distinction is that Holden finds the truth for himself only, and Morpheus – for the whole humanity.
References
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Pinsker, Sanford, and Ann Pinsker. Understanding the Catcher in the Rye: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.