Westworld Analysis

According to Jared of Wisecrack, the Westworld park is a metaphor for the Garden of Eden and the hosts, or the robots inside the park, are Adam and Eve because they don't know anything about eveything. Some of the hosts inavertedly found out about the truth that they are just robots inside a park used for the entertainment of humans (similar to taking a bite out of a fruit in the tree of knowledge). But instead of banishing them from the park, they are reprogrammed to their ignorant selves. This means that the whole story of the TV series is the story of creation in a loop: after eating the fruit of knowledge, they are programmed to erase the things that they know and then they are brought back again to Eden. Wyatt, one of creators of the park, wanted to give the hosts a sense of free will, which means he is basically Lucifer tempting the hosts to get a sense of the truth. Of course, Ford doesn't agree with him. As an alternative to free will, Ford put a storage of painful memories to the minds of the host to simulate basic human personalities to them. But not all costumers of the park were easily decieved by this. The Man in Black, after witnessing the misfires of not giving the host a sense of free will, followed up Wyatt's plan. His plan was a little different; instead of putting free will among the hosts, he wants to inject ethics in the park. You see, the hosts in the park doesn't know good from bad since they are just programmed to do the things Ford commanded them to do, so the park has no concept of ethics. The Man in Black executed his plan by doing bad things among the host. Although the hosts are always reprogrammed to their original selves, his plan worked since the painful things that he did were stored in the hosts' memories.
In the season finale, Ford then gave the hosts their own free will as a testament to his friendship with Wyatt. The Man in Black was successful in putting a concept of ethics in the hosts' mind. The hosts aren't ignorant beings anymore like Adam and Eve and they got out of the Garden of Eden.

God, I love this show.

(You can watch Wisecrack's video here)