It would be easy to justify killing a zombie if I was laying on the ground with a zombie on top of me with its hand just inches away from reaching my face. While looking into its eyes and seeing the only thing on its minds is the desire to tear my face off to get to my delicious brains. However, is it as easy to justifying killing a zombie when it is not harming you? I believe that looking into my mother’s undead eyes as she is chained up in some barn could not be much better than ending her life. It is not ethical to keep a person dead or alive locked up in a barn with no way to escape. I believe that if my family were transformed into zombies I would have no moral obligations towards them.
The first issue of zombies is determining if they are alive or dead. If they are rational beings that follow a set of moral code that is that they are moral agents that can demonstrate a capacity of morality .The other option is that they are moral patients who are not rational or moral. Since zombies are fictional beings it is hard to define them as one thing or another. In Thompson’s essay “She’s Not Your Mother Anymore. She’s a Zombie!”:Zombies, Values, and Personal Identity he explains that, “Zombies present us with beings who appear to be alive, but who lack the rich mental life that we associate with “normal” persons. Their decay and disintegration is rather more indicative of death than life.”(30) In horror movies they come in all shapes and sizes. Some are fast some are slow,
Dating back to hundreds of years ago, we feared humans coming back to life. Why do we dig a hole six feet deep, why do we nail the box close, why do we have wakes and funerals for the dead? Because we fear them coming back to get us, either as zombies or ghosts. We tender to fear zombies more because, if we turn into a zombie, we lost ourselves, unlike vampires or werewolves you can still place as human. One can state, Jeffrey Cohen is right, zombies are taboo ad also not individualities. They only have one goal that is to eat. Then looking within us, are we the monsters, are we zombies? We kill zombies because they are not like us anymore, they are robots. Cohen talks about movies like Alien, and how taboo it is. What would the alien done if it killed Ripley, what if The Terminator completed its mission? The Terminator says in the second film that they cannot self-terminate. Would it have live with us? We are looking from the outside because Aliens, The Terminator and even King Kong were never human, they are not
Ever since the first zombie movie was created in 1932, there has been a constant rise of zombie appearances in popular media. Like with all monsters, the majority of zombie media aimed to represent a certain aspect throughout the society in question. Whereas vampires represented romanticism and Dracula represented how a certain social group was viewed during a certain time period, zombies in Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” aimed to create a situation whereby a group of people had to survive a night together, despite their racial tensions between one another. Being the founder of all subsequent zombie films, “Night of the Living Dead” provided a guideline for zombie behavior. As time passed, more and more versions of the zombie came out, whereby zombies stopped being a plot device and turned into the focus of the film itself. The Walking Dead, currently standing as the fourth most popular TV series, took a turn from this progression and decided to imitate Romero’s take on zombies. By including zombies which simply aimed to sustain themselves by consuming the flesh of the “live,” the creators of The Walking Dead caused the remaining survivors to gather together and rely on primitive human instinct to survive. Even though the zombies in this series run rampant, they play a very minimalistic metaphoric role. Instead, by presenting the zombies as a plot device, the characters in this series were able to demonstrate their true prejudiced view on society, ultimately revealing
Clapp assumes that the audience sees zombies as creatures that serve no purpose, but to spread their contagion. He refers to this in his article when asking the questions of what would you do if a loved one was turned into a zombie. This scenario is hard to choose between because it makes the audience feel challenged on what they would do in a situation like that. They aren’t sure if they would save someone they love by helping them or save themselves. This is significant to the argument because he is trying to prove that we all see zombies are deathly and
Are brains connect zombies with the end to modern society. Today in modern times everyone is dependent of technology and are society, that going away is terrifying. It terrifies me thinking about having my life taken away from me. I don't want to to give up my minute rice, 24/7 TV, and double stuff Oreos. And I'm sure everyone feels the same way. How we live is like a old sweater we constantly wear and the dryer is like the zombies, you can picture your sweater being destroyed by the dryer. I know it's a strange metaphor, but for some reason it seems to fit. Zombies represent are ever present fear of destruction and fear of evil taking over the living and the dead. In a way when you kill a zombie it's still technically a human body, so really your afraid of other people and even yourself. If you turn you would hurt other people, become a monster that you were afraid of. Becoming what you fear is a huge them when it comes to zombies, assuming that the zombies are the type that can turn you of course. As I once said before, zombies are associated with destruction which can also be taken as a sign of disapproval of
My zombie is the result of a severe psychosis condition. Although many different more specific disorders may be responsible for this more broad conclusion, the psychosis condition my zombie is experiencing causes an altered state of reality, or severe hallucinations. While my zombie is in fact a zombie in her mind, she is, in reality, no more deranged than any other mortal human. Her altered perception of the world around her has caused her to believe she is a brain-eating, horrific zombie. As does any other, or most, cases of extreme hallucinations, it does eventually come to an end as Halloween and the month of October also wean away the other supernatural creatures lurking in her hallucination. This twisted experience of reality did not,
I had this question for a while now, coming from a person who love zombies (I don’t like werewolves or vampires wars), why we, a society as a whole, are so fascinated and even dread zombies. Every culture, religion, society, or being alone has some form of an individual reanimating back to life. Take this, is Jesus a zombie? A zombie is an undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse, so is Jesus one? Americans love zombies, I mean look at the Zombie walk in Asbury Park or The Walking Dead. Not just Americans fear zombies, taken in Chinese culture the Jiangshi, the hopping zombie, or 2014 when Ebola outbreak occur, villages reported seeing zombies. Yet, zombies captivated us, because anyone can be one, and you lose 100% of
While the idea of zombies or where they were first originated from can be debated by many different countries, several of these myths have reoccurring plots of how humans passed away, and found a way to come back from the dead. No matter what story is being told from around the world about zombies, they all seem to originate from a dark power being used to bring someone back from the dead. Throughout the centuries; however, we have adapted towards our new technology and now many zombie stories include either a deadly virus that escaped from a lab or a biological disease that somehow evolved and helped reanimate people; yet, didn’t completely bring them to life as the functioning citizens they used to be. Although the story of how zombies came to be has changed due to technological advances, in both cases zombies seem to represent a punishment and a plague to the human species and are condemned as evil beings, or ungodly. With increasing popularity in American society, it is evident that the main explanation its popularity are because it depicts survival or an individual or group of individuals, shows a new society that isn’t overly sanitized or censored, gives people with regular lives an opportunity to live vicariously through the characters and furthermore shows that consumerism isn’t a necessity.
Zombies or cannibalistic humanoids are popular among the horror genre of myths and legends. As a result, they have became dominant in the pop culture with their appearance in numerous iconic films and shows. Within these legends, stories or films, zombies have been depicted in different versions. They can either be quick and cunningly vicious or slow and mindless. Some stories even portray them having a smart efficient society where they utilize a strange sense of teamwork. Although all of these versions have its comparisons, zombies always end up having a relation to the infamous virus that infects
War. We are always at war, with ourselves, others, with life ,and with death. We are constantly fighting to come out of these wars as victors, but something is always lost. While fighting to survive, and fighting to keep loved ones safe, innocence is thrust into the backseat. Morals, laws, and order is all lost when our brains and bodies kick into survival mode. When fighting zombies there is no chance to second guess or take a break to question one's actions, because it's a life or death situation. So in this war with zombies, we fight for survival, family, and pray our innocence stays intact. The loss of innocence is inevitable in a zombie apocalypse, because when we are fighting to survive, there is no way to save or maintain our innocence.
Zombies are metaphors for homeless drug addicts. The list of comparisons is long. The main point is that both afflictions are frightening, devastating and heart breaking. Sadly, like Hershel of “The Walking Dead” by Robert Kirkman, parents are the ones who suffer the greatest and like Hershel, live in denial; protecting and enabling the children whom they remember as healthy and innocent. Other family members and friends may give up and accept the new reality, abandoning the afflicted, but the parents almost always cling to hope for a cure. (Kirkman) Education is necessary if that hope has a chance to be realized.
As we all know most of us find zombies repulsive, ugly, and scary. Zombies can also connect our fears with death. Zombies are looked at as being fictional and created through a reanimation of a human corpse. Zombies are most likely found in horror films and fantasy genres, but can have connections with history with complex origins.
Zombies are a phenomenon almost everyone has heard about. Shambling mindless corpses trying to feast on the flesh of the living. The idea of the undead has been around for almost as long as people have. There have been multiple cultural phenomenon and ideas of how to keep the dead from coming back to haunt the living. The first modern zombies appeared in Haiti around 1920 and has become a massive part of American culture. So why have zombies remained so culturally significant? Why has the idea of the dead coming back to life with a malicious intent has caused fear in humans for centuries? How are zombies related to the ever-changing cultures of humanity? Shawn McIntosh, David Pagano, and Martin Rogers write about the significance of zombies
In my opinion, the authors feel too strongly and consider the subject of zombies too deeply, when zombies are meant to be an object of entertainment. The authors base their whole article on the idea that zombies were so prevalent in the media because they reflect the image of a capitalist slave and represent the idea of post-humanism. They believe the zombie goes a lot deeper than simply being an object of fear, when I believe, yes, some people may feel as though they sometimes relate to the zombie, but the whole image and idea of the zombie is not based around how we see ourselves as a society. Most people relate to the zombie in a superficial way, such as when they are sleepy, sick, or not interested in what is going on around them, they may say they are like a zombie. This means they are slow-moving and disassociating themselves from their environment.
Zombies are boring. Despite the amount of creative freedom authors can exhibit in the fiction genre, there is a singular, consistent, specific, and defining depiction of what is known as “the zombie.” The very uttering of this science fiction buzz-word conjures elaborate and imaginative images of decomposing, slack-jawed, mindless creatures hungering for flesh. Their clothes are usually dirty and ragged, their teeth stained yellow and red, the remnants of their last meal on their lips, and a telltale missing limb or chunk of flesh from when they crossed from life into un-death. The manner in which the zombie plague is passed will often differ: one of the earliest iterations of the zombie in the 1932 movie The White Zombie were simply
Intriguingly, as far as realists are worried about, the production of the undead into international politics would leave international relations “largely unaffected” (Drezner 42). Since realists profoundly argue that the distribution of power in the international system regulates a state behavior, a theoretical plague of zombies is no different from other more orthodox threats to state security like terrorism or nuclear proliferation. States will simply continue to go about seeking power and accruing resources in order to secure themselves from this new threat. Furthermore, as Drezner points out, “Some realist would go further, arguing that, in the end, human-zombie alliances of convenience would be just as likely to emerge as human-human alliances” (Drezner 47). It is very certain a security dilemma would emerge from targeting a zombie state. The essentials of world politics would remain unchanged since both zombie states and human states would participate in tactical opportunities to advance their interest in the anarchical system. Indeed, it might even be strategically wise to fashion temporary alliances with some zombie states as a way to balance against human states that try to exploit the situation with some kind of idealistic power grab. So, according to realism, the introduction of zombies would not fundamentally alter the character of world