Virtual reality is the science of the future. At this moment in time, we only have things that can partly take us into the virtual world; we have visors and remotes that let us accomplish such things. However, in Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, he makes sure that the future is well equipped with everything that they need to truly be a futuristic society. They are given full haptic suits that allow them to blur the line between reality and video games. Their new reality resides in a place where anyone can be anything. Within that place, gender still exists, but there is no longer a black or white. The grey area in Ready Player One shows how speculative fiction and virtual reality come together to find a way out the cultural entrapment that …show more content…
As he continues to stalk her blog, he begins to envision the world that she is living in inside the OASIS. As one of the most renowned female gunters, she holds the title as the leader for the sex that she portrays. Watts begins to see the world through her eyes, as starts to understand the amount of hate and disgust is thrown her way on a daily basis. Things become more serious as he finds that he was not the first person to discover the first out of three keys needed in order to find the easter egg. When he found out that he was second to A3termis, it was serious blow to his confidence. As a male protagonist, it is unnatural for him to experience any type of setback. In fact, Wade shows all of the characteristics of a female protagonist. His character completely disregards the boundaries that society places upon males. In the real world, he would be subjected to the same tortures that would befall any effeminate male, bullying/punishment. However, because the majority of his actions take place in the virtual world, he is not subjected to the same thing. He is still bullied because he wears default skins for a low-ranking avatar, and even though he has vast knowledge about plenty of different things, he is unable to put any of it to use. Our …show more content…
The man would say that queer theory is a myth. There is only the weak and the strong, but yet he sits in the very middle of the black and white area that he is trying to create. As a gunter, on is supposed to knowledgeable on everything that is related to Holiday, yet he knows nothing. He has the money to rank up along with the experience of doing so, yet he does not carry the knowledge necessary to back up his claims. His front is that he is unwilling to admit when he does not know something, which is very characteristic of a male. They hold true to whatever truth that they think that they have, and refuse to back down. However, A3termis has shown that she can counteract such stupidity. She carries the knowledge and vast experience that is required of a top shelf gunter, and when she confronted by the man that thinks he knows everything, she easily trumps him at his own brain games. When “leaving the formal structure of this binary unchanged, women often end up reinforcing patriarchy even when they attain “masculine” positions of intellectual and imperial authority” (Prystash 342). Cline takes the story in the other direction though because he shows that women are able to attain the same stature as a male. The difference between male and female are not solely a physical one; it is a mental one as well. The beauty of the OASIS is that it gives every player an equal starting ground. No one player starts