The Matrix Rhetorical Devices

As stated by Goodale (2007), any recurrent element or technique in the writing has a symbolic significance. For instance, most of the authors make us the recurrent imagery to produce the aspect of mood or impression. How the author repeatedly use imagery for the above purpose while making the story meaningful is always interesting. Similarly, from the reading “The Matrix” by Larry and Andy Wachowski we are able to see this aspect of recurrently imagery, which seem to have achieved a significant purpose of this piece. This script was written back in the year 1998, but still remains relevant today because of how it presents events successfully by use of imagery (Crystal, 2004). . Even at the beginning of this writing we see the authors introduce

19). He describes it as a monitor from outside. This helps to picture that the room’s wall was made of a translucent material where one could see from outside but not from inside. With this description, the reader gets the image the author is portraying. This shows that it was a secure place where one could be seen from the inside. In accumulation to this, the author states on how Neo feels when he is interrogated. He states that he feels that he is sinking in a piece of shit (p. 32). By comparing the state that Neo was with shit, it shows that it was an unpleasant state. The author brings desperate emotion to the readers mind on how the character felt inside that room. This also attracts the reader to the story and pursues him to continue reading to know what next will happen to the

By this, the reader understands that Neo did not know where he was nor where he was going just like a night walker who wakes up at night and dream while walking not knowing where he is heading to. The reader pictures how Neo from walking up and does not know where he was, full of questions but still follows Morpheus without asking where he was being taken. This shows that the character was confused which he was trying to get rid of it. Also, inside the oracles’ house, there is the use of imagery the where there is a description of the skinny boy with a shaved head and the oracle who is an old woman to be someone’s grandmother (p. 79). This helps the reader to imagine how the two characters looked like a young kid and an aged