Technology and Mythic Narrative: The Matrix as Technological Hero-Quest

This article is mainly about the similarities that Joseph Campbell's idea of the "monomyth", otherwise known as Hero's Quest or Hero's Journey,and how it relates to the film "The Matrix" in regards to the technology shown in the movie. The monomyth idea is that one person is chosen from an ordinary world to enter an unknown world with different powers and abilities. The person chosen has to face many obstacles and at the end finally has the choice to return to their place of origin, in which they would use what they have learned to face different challenges that might arise. It speaks about how the Matrix follows Campbell's hero-quest but that Neo experiences seperation on two axes. Campbells hero-quest theory only states the seperation of one axes, existential. But Neo experiences existential an ontological. In other words he feels seperated from the idea of things existing or not.