Blog 10: Reflection

The overall connection and relationship of illusion and the perception of reality among all the content is what caught my attention most. Within each of the stories ignorance of a reality and living an illusion held a strong presence whether looking at Neo from the “Matrix”, the prisoners within the “Allegory of the Cave” and “Oedipus” we can see evidence of this cognitive concept. In the “Matrix” Neo is living in a world, which in fact only exists inside a machine. Trapped in this world for so many years unaware of a reality could be compared to Prisoners in the “Allegory of the Cave” whom were also prisoners to an illusion and yet again could be seen in “Oedipus” who was lied to about his lineage and lived in an illusion. All three characters were secluded and blinded from the truth; all had the idea that what in front of them was in fact real. I found these concepts to be appealing in the sense that it allowed me to sort of “think outside the box.” Within my very own writings I’ve been a prisoner to certain structures and limited my very own imagination do to these structures. I was unaware of this till I came across such a creative concept. Similar to these characters I feel as if I have awoken from an illusion.

I myself as a writer try to find and develop better ways of reaching my audience. I know a weakness of mine has been creating a great way of grabbing the attention of the reader. I can easily grab the attention of a passerby or in a group of people via verbal communication however when it comes to my writing even when I read it over I feel its just does not live up to my expectation and or represent my thoughts to their full meaning. With the blogs I feel as if it has allowed me to express ideas a bit more clear however I still feel it hasn’t been my best work nor have I shown it. I guess another weakness is I truly am my “own worst critic.”