What is the Matrix?

I must agree with Alicia and be quite literal in that the Matrix to me is a movie or a mathematical method to solve multiplication. When we discussed it and blogs in class though I was intrigued by the definition we found regarding word origin and the connection to womb, woman and mother (matriarchal).

After thinking about this idea for sometime it actually began to tie into the movie more and more for me, or at least what I could remember of the movie. If the connection to the womb applied to the matrix it would then be as if those involved are within the “womb” of this alternate reality, suspended in another world different from the outside world.

The idea of the womb also could relate to the idea of the an all encompassing being or place, a mother creator/earth in a sense. A tie back once again with old and indigenous views of the earth and its creation. The idea of a matriarchal basis for life.

Mother as creator and the “womb” of all creation. In the matrix all are within this other reality and connected through the suspension of life and belief in the alternate reality.