Originally Posted by
Broussard
Surely the maze was a metaphor for self-awareness, with some physical aspects and manifestations.
Early on in the programme, during one of their chats, Bernard (or was it Arnold?) talked to Dolores about the maze: "the goal is to find the centre of it. If you can do that, then maybe you can be free..."
Of course, this is the conflated by all the other talk / hints about the physical maze (Ford?) or perhaps the laboratories. So perhaps it's all three?
*If* the maze is Arnold's last gift to the Hosts, then he'll want a) the Hosts to become self-aware, and b) to escape / live free. Finding Ford would be a bonus, one assumes.
Probably.