Blog 10
Life is a Dream is very unique, yet interesting to me. Even though I find this play different from anything we have read, I find it hard to compare it with other plays. One major subject to this play is that you are living a life that is actually a dream. Therefore it is not real; your life is just a figment of your imagination and is only in your mind. That being said I feel that Life is a Dream can be compared to The Matrix. In the Matrix you go through life assuming everything is real, but in actuality you are in a tube with wires in your head feeding your mind incorrect information. You are part of a make believe world artificially created. Segismund realizes after he wakes up that the life he was living before was pointless. The same point is made in The Matrix when Neo is awaken and brought to the real earth. The life Neo was living was pointless and had no purpose other than to make him believe he was actually living.
posted by jsturtevant @ 11:02 AM
2 Comments:
Very impressive. You compared the play to The Matrix and we talked abuot that in class. Nice. Although I have never watched The Matrix in its entireity, I have heard lots about it. I have also watched parts and I can se the comparision between it and Life is a Dream.
Comparing Life is a Dream to the Matrix makes a lot of sense. I compared mine to the movie Vanilla Sky where people are put into dream lives. The idea of everything that we have experienced in our lives being a dream is pretty scary to me.
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