SimplePriest> (Raises hand). No, you’re not alone in assuming Oracle=Mother of The Matrix. I think it was Sifer or JediHDM who once pointed out, that the Architect may know the Oracle as Program CCH/5643-g. Or Archie may just be annoyed that Neo interrupts him.
“Please! AS I was saying…” Translated: Goodness, isn’t that obvious, why do you interrupt me with such blatant tautological truths. AS I was saying…
The Oracle is a psychic program. She predicts the future, she “reads” the minds of everyone brought before here. And because the digital self of a human IS a program, The Oracle can REALLY truly read that program code. She can predict everything a human will do, and how he/she will react to different situations IN the Matrix. With perfect mathematical precision.
It collides head-on with our notion of free will and choice, but the Oracle is not taking that away. She can simply read a human IN the Matrix, his or her entire digital self code, and use mathematics and statistics. She studies the human psyche. Take that literally! 🙂
Then she uses that knowledge carefully. She makes certain to make it look as if Neo and co. have a choice (as she did when Neo went to rescue Morpheus). They do have a choice. She’s just already READ WHAT they’ll choose.
She makes a "slip" in Reloaded. "You're not here to make that choice... You already made it." No, Neo hadn't made the actual choice of rescuing Trinity yet, but a program like the Oracle would be able to predict with 100 % certainty that he would.
Damn, where’s the philosophy section? 😄
Persephone:
In a couple of articles you can read, that both Mero AND Persephone are emotional vampires. They’re the symbol of being rich, powerful, jaded and bored to… ehrm (would that be deletion in this case?) death. So they play their little games. Notice Mero and Perse sitting nicely next to one another in the Revolutions Trailer?
Burlyman> The “other potentials” in the Oracles apartment where never called her kids directly The welcome-lady refereed to the children (As the spoon-bender) as OTHER potentials, so we’d know Neo wasn’t BORN to be the One. (Well, not directly at least).
And when Neo broke the vase, the Oracle said “I’ll get one of my children to fix it.” Of course it’s possible that the Oracle “lovingly” refers to the potentials as HER kids.