When a character exhibits certain characteristics, an audience will interpret these characteristics and identify that character as a hero. The first clue to Neo's heroic character is that he is separated from a place of comfort and taken to new surroundings. That is the first step in a hero journey and this happens to Neo when he is taken out of the Matrix. Neo is then initiated and faces unfamiliar circumstances which begin to teach him about himself and his task. It is then when Neo begins to fall into the seeker and sage archetypes as his quest and fear are revealed. A seeker's quest is to search for a better life and that is evident in Neo's situation as he dislikes the Matrix and signed on to change it. The sage's quest is to find the truth and th

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