John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill and Pierre Elliot Trudeau were visionaries of the free world that drew the populace into their dreams. These great leaders did not have to thrive off conformists or tell their followers how to act, function and behave. In contrast Adolf Hitler demanded conformity, compliance out of fear so that his followers became so jaded they could not differentiate between right and wrong, good and bad, real and unreal. In situations such as these, individuality disintegrates into a common notion of one; liberty seems lost. In The Matrix the rebels fight for freedom in a world of conformity illustrated by the agent's enforcement, the matrix functioning on conformity and Neo defying conformity on a quest for freedom and truth.

The agents act as representors and enforcers of conformity who remain in the matrix to defeat the rebels that

Jawell. The Matrix: An Impersonal City. Online. Available: www.louisville.edu/~jawell02/matrix2.html. October 5, 2000

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Neo rebels against the conformity of the matrix by believing in something more, therefore illustrating the lifelessness of the matrix. When Neo begins to think independently of the machines, he gains power and the only obstacle in his path is destroying the conformist inside him. Morpheus says to him, "I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one who has to walk through it." He has lived a life of persecution enforced by the machines and knows only conformity. Freeing his mind entitles Neo to the power of thinking independently of the machines that control him. Now he needs to share his newfound liberty with the rest of humanity in order to free the populace of confor

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