It is important to seek the unknown but Sometimes asking questions about what should be hidden can lead a person to answers they don’t want to know. When people ask questions about the unknown they are not always prepared for the truth. For example when Oedipus discovers the truth about his identity and is past. Another example is “The Matrix” when Neo meets Morpheus after longing to find the truth about reality.
In the play “Oedipus the king” Oedipus was born in the city of Thebes but his father tries to murder him due to a prophecy foretold to him by the gods. Oedipus was saved by a merchant who found him and he was brought to Corinth a new kingdom where he had been raised. During Oedipus’s teenage years he attended a party where a drunken man told him he was adopted. Out of curiosity Oedipus went to Delphi where he learned of his terrible destiny of killing his father and sleeping with his mother. Oedipus tries to escape this misfortune by running away from Corinth and blindly returning to his old home town where he was born Thebes. On his was there he blindly kills king Laius king of Thebes and the true father of Oedipus. Once he became the new king of Thebes he met a woman named Jocasta who was his mother who he married and had children with. Once Jocasta realized that Oedipus was her son she tried to keep Oedipus from the truth. Due to Oedipus’s curiosity he persued the truth anyway.Once he found out about the truth he could not believe what he discovered.As a result he stabbed his eyes and banished himself from Thebes. Since Oedipus asked the gods who his parents were he learned about his terrible fate. Had he ignored the prophecy and lived his life in Corinth he may have dodged the prophecy.
In the movie "The Matrix" man named Neo questioned his current reality but is not prepared to meet with the actual reality that is actually a destroyed wasteland. Neo meets a man named Morpheus who teaches Neo about the real world.Morpheus and Neo must Fight against Machines and end slavery by the machines.Neo meet the real world and is given the option to stay is reality or return to the matrix. After seeing what reality truly is he decided he wants to return to the matrix since its what he was used to. When Neo saw what reality truly was he was surprised. since Neo constantly asked about the distant reality he eventually got what he wished for only to want to return to the matrix.
"Curiosity killed the cat" When you ask a question about something it is important to be prepared for the results. Sometimes it is better to not know and easier to deal with rather than hear the truth and not understand it like in Oedipus or the Matrix. Some information is better hidden than shared "Ignorance is bliss".
In the movie "The Matrix" man named Neo questioned his current reality but is not prepared to meet with the actual reality that is actually a destroyed wasteland. Neo meets a man named Morpheus who teaches Neo about the real world.Morpheus and Neo must Fight against Machines and end slavery by the machines.Neo meet the real world and is given the option to stay is reality or return to the matrix. After seeing what reality truly is he decided he wants to return to the matrix since its what he was used to. When Neo saw what reality truly was he was surprised. since Neo constantly asked about the distant reality he eventually got what he wished for only to want to return to the matrix.
"Curiosity killed the cat" When you ask a question about something it is important to be prepared for the results. Sometimes it is better to not know and easier to deal with rather than hear the truth and not understand it like in Oedipus or the Matrix. Some information is better hidden than shared "Ignorance is bliss".
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