This leaves many questions. What was The Oracle designed to do? What did she actually achieve? And why was she motivated to work against her own creators? Here's the full purpose and origin of the entity known as The Oracle in The Matrix.
Although The Oracle is one of the oldest and most powerful programs in the Matrix, she didn't come pre-installed with version 1. When the Machines first decided to enslave humanity in an artificial world and repurpose their real bodies into generators, they experienced a few teething problems with regards to making the human mind accept a digital reality.
In the first version of the Matrix, the Machines created a paradise, but the jacked-in humans rejected it; the second time they were given a dystopia, and once again the system crashed.
This mass rejection meant the deaths of everyone hooked into the simulation, and while the Machines didn't exactly shed tears over this, it did mean their system wasn't sustainable. The Oracle program was the turning point that made the Matrix work. The first Matrix designs built by the Architect had been perfectly ordered, but the third update added a mother The Oracle to the father-figure Architect.
The Oracle's role was initially just understanding the human psyche, essentially making her an advanced predictive algorithm presented in the guise of a clairvoyant. After figuring out the secret to a stable Matrix and receiving a promotion, The Oracle added free will and human choice to the third simulation, and this created a balanced alternate reality that the vast majority of humans accepted.
Those who did take the red pill would be removed from the Matrix and guided by The Oracle using the prophecy of " The One ," who would someday come to free all of Zion. It's suggested, but never confirmed, that The Oracle's installation as a key figure in the Matrix made The Merovingian obsolete. The relevant confirmation by the Oracle is:. Neo: If I had to guess, I'd say you're a program from the machine world. So is he [Seraph]. Architect: I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection.
Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another - an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the Matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother. The Architect is definitely a machine; in The Matrix Revolutions he rhetorically asks the Oracle if she thinks he is a human:. It is not as clear whether or not he is simply a program within the Matrix or if he is a machine from the real world jacked into the Matrix. Since the Architect calls himself and the Oracle the father and mother of the Matrix, and the Oracle is a program, by symmetry the Architect may only be a program.
On the other hand, he must have existed before the Matrix since he created it and for that reason may need to be a machine from the real world. The Architect has a human appearance because as part of the Machines' system he has to explain the choice required of The One -- so he does interact with a human as an important and necessary part of his role.
Similarly, the Oracle requires a human appearance to converse with The One. Oracle and Architect are both machines who built the Matrix in the first place. Unlike the agents, they existed before the Matrix was built. So they aren't "just" simple programs but they have an influence in the real world, too. The Architect represents Control. After the machines defeated humanity, it was the Architect who designed the Matrix to keep humanity under control.
He designed the Matrix, but was unable to prevent most of humanity from rejecting the Matrix and waking up. It still didn't work. The Oracle represents Choice. Her conclusion was that the only way to keep humans under control was to give them a choice of whether to accept the Matrix or not. This meant that there would always be at least a small percentage of humans who would reject the Matrix, so they created Zion as another level of control for those "awake" humans.
Both Neo and Smith are the result of her methods. In a way she is the true hero of the story, because it was all part of her plan that A Smith would eventually become so powerful that he becomes a threat to the entire Machine race, B the Machines would accept Neo's terms for peace in exchange for defeating Smith, and C that Neo and Smith would eventually merge and cancel each other out.
In my mind, The Oracle represents the feminine aspect of God Source and The Architect represents the masculine aspect. Neither of them is good or evil, they leave the good and evil axis up to their creation so that they can watch the tug-o-war without much bias. I suppose it's implied that they each had different ideas about good and evil and may be biased towards whether chaos is good and order is evil or the other way around. That's sort of irrelevant though. It's a beautiful expression of the divine comedy, an infinite amount of games and possibilities inside of an infinite universe.
Another movie that has a similar dynamic is "The Book of Life". Architect and Oracle are references to system architecture circuitry and UNIX the oldest operating system. The two had to originally work together way back when computer advancements were being imagined and developed to assist humanity, only to lead to human enslavement.
Oracle was built for human interaction and while human interaction evolved, she evolved with it. I don't understand why one would call the Oracle and the Architect machines. Machines are mechanical devices, robots, essentially. The machines in question are controlled by programs. These programs are the sentience of the machine world and have been since the beginning. Eventually, we may question whether she truly knows anything about the future, or if she is instead simply a good judge of character.
The discovery that the Oracle is actually a program, part of the Matrix itself, complicates our understanding of her abilities even further. Ultimately, her calm and comforting demeanor may help Neo and the others with their mission almost as much as an actual prophecy would or does. The Wachowskis adapted their Oracle from the mythical Oracle at Delphi, who, according to legend, once declared Socrates the wisest man in the land.
The Oracle aids the human resistance in freeing humanity from the oppression of the Machines. According to Morpheus , the Oracle has been in the service of the resistance "since the beginning.
The Oracle gives predictions and insight to Zion operatives who choose to hear her. The one prediction she relays to the resistance of Zion is that of the Prophecy , where the war will end when The One returns to end the hold of the Matrix.
For Morpheus, the Oracle tells him that he would find The One , a man with incredible powers within the Matrix who could end the Machine War. The Oracle's powers of precognition appear amazingly accurate, even knowing that Neo was about to knock over a vase in her kitchen. She refers to a Latin saying on her wall "know thyself" - a popular tenet of Greek life.
She leaves Neo in doubt as to his true path, noting that he has the "gift", but appears to be waiting for something: "Your next life, maybe. She also predicts a time when Neo will have to choose between his life and that of his leader, Morpheus. One of them will be saved, but the other will die. The Oracle's prediction leads Neo to rescue Morpheus, but lose his own life at the hands of Agent Smith in the process.
But Trinity intervenes. She confesses to Neo's lifeless body in the real world that the Oracle had said she would fall in love with The One, which meant that Neo could not actually be dead. With a kiss from Trinity, Neo's consciousness rejects the idea that he has actually died, and he re-awakens within the Matrix, enlightened, and empowered as The One.
In a later meeting, Neo can now see that the Oracle is not a human at all, but yet another program within the Matrix, perhaps yet another form of control over humanity. But the Oracle warns Neo to make up his own mind as to whether she was a friend or enemy.
She directs Neo to find the entryway to the Source by finding the Keymaker , a program that can open hidden and locked backdoors within the Matrix. Unfortunately, the Keymaker is being held by what the Oracle describes as "a very dangerous program, one of the oldest of us. He is called the Merovingian.
While Neo is successful in reaching the Source, he meets with the Architect , who tells him that the Oracle, a sentient program designed to understand human psychology, is the Matrix's "mother", for lack of a better term.
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