Issues of Morality in 'The Walking Dead'

When it comes to survival Leah A. Murray in her article, “When They Aren’t Eating Us, They Bring Us Together: Zombies and the American Social Contract” suggests that individuals that have a community built on a common goal gives these people the best odds of surviving a Posthuman event. The episode “Killer Within” of The Walking Dead shows Rick, Carol, Maggie, Glenn, and Daryl acting individualistic towards members not in their pre-established community in an effort to protect themselves from potential dangers. However, T-Dog demonstrates a communitarian approach by wanting to allow new people to join their community. According to Murray Individualism is when individuals are self-reliant and put their needs in front of anyone else, and communitarianism is when individuals put the needs of society above their own. These citizens work together and have a sense of community and self-sacrifice. In The Walking Dead season three episode, “Killer Within,” Rick and his group demonstrate Murray 's concept of individualism as they oppose the idea of adding new people to their group because they fear them. However, T-Dog represents a communitarian approach as he strives to convince Rick and the others that the new people should be initiated into Rick’s group.

The main character Rick Grimes is in a group of about 14 people who have survived the apocalypse for 7 seasons. They have lost more than half the people they have now. Other than Rick the other two main characters are his son Carl and Michonne (Carl’s “best friend”). The other characters have become emotionally attached to the main three making a family

Rick struggles with his feelings of love for Ilsa and his loyalty and admiration for Victor and his cause. Rick recognizes how important Victor’s work is to the world, and sees that Ilsa is a necessary part of this mission. Rick admires Victor’s selfless devotion to Ilsa, and knows that he (Victor) is the better man. He tells Ilsa, “...inside of us we both know you belong with Victor.

In the walking dead Rick still has a sense of civilization much like Ralph, they are leaders who are able to see outcomes of situations and base their decisions upon it. Whereas Negan and Jack both seem to have a sense of savagery. Just by seeing Negan's choice of weapon, being a baseball bat with barbed wire around it, we are able to see that he has no mercy, and overall goal is to kill much like Jack and the pig. For example, Jack shows no sympathy when killing the pig he says, “ ‘There was lashings of blood,’ said Jack, laughing and shuddering, ‘you should have seen it!’ ‘We’ll go hunting everyday-’” (Golding 73).

The Walking Dead is an American horror drama television series, which is based on the comic book series of the same name. It tells the story of a small group of survivors living in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. The plot focuses on the dilemmas the group faces as they struggle to maintain their humanity during the daily challenges of surviving in a hostile world. Which includes battling

The Walking Dead first starts out in a small town hospital in Georgia, where the main character awakens from a coma caused from a gunshot wound. He is unaware that there are hoards of zombies or “walkers” beyond his hospital room door. He was the sheriff of the town before the outbreak and now has to find his way out of the hospital. He stumbles across a man named Morgan Jones and his son Duane while walking through the town who explain what has happened. They help him by supplying him with weapons and rumors on the CDC but cannot go with him because it is dangerous outside of their town. Rick, the main character, is a natural leader and has his head on straight which is why many people follow him throughout the show.

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

Now, if you read between the lines you realize that Rick isn’t as he appears. He is said to have done odd jobs such as a roofer, a car parker, a painter, and a tree planter. Roofers tend to be of criminal background. Saying he is a car parker could be code that he stole cars. Painters go into people’s houses and spend time in the house when the family isn’t there. He probably robbed the houses. He probably just made up the tree planting thing to further reinforce the good guy persona. The main character also divulges to us that Rick made a copy of the gas station's bathroom key. That just reinforces a criminal background and the fact that he is using Rick for the disability money. Every relationship in this short story is based in greed. The producer doesn’t want to hire real actors so he can save money. Baldev was getting money to loan out his horrible basement. Lastly, the main character was taking as much advantage as possible of his disability and living conditions to get more

The Walking Dead is a televised American drama series about a group of people trying to survive a zombie apocalypse developed by Frank Darabont. The series stars Andrew Lincoln as sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who awakens from a coma after the world yields to a zombie plague (Griffiths, 2011). Dazed and confused from months in the hospital he wanders out to figure out why he cannot find anyone alive. He makes his way home only to find his wife and son missing. He sets out to locate his family and finds many other survivors on his journey (Tucker, 2010). The Walking Dead coordinates with many social themes such as

It became truly serious to John Rick when one afternoon, a court official and other ten men came to his house to arrest his wife. Mrs. Rick was similar to Mrs. Nurse, a virtous and pious Christian woman. John Rick had nearly gone mad; half of his mind told him if his wife was indeed innocent, she would be released. The other half reminded him of Mrs. Nurse’s and Simpson’s deaths. That night, he went around in the town to convince people to sign in a petition for his wife. By the

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Imagining aiming down the barrel of a weapon and seeing your neighbor that you used to consider your friend in its sights. No, you do not want to do this, but this is what you must do for survival in an apocalyptic scenario. This is an example of what a world deprived of morality would look like. Humans would never survive in an apocalyptic environment if they were forced to turn against each other at every waking moment. No matter what, there will always be a portion of society that will hold on to the morals they learned in their youth.

Both Rick Grimes and his actions are moral and unselfish. Rather than being self-centered, Rick puts his life on the line to protect the group and his family with the best of his ability. The well-intentioned actions and selfless motives of Rick is evident in these three examples. In the early events of

The Walking Dead universe does not use the term zombies, but “walkers” instead. The premise of the game revolves around the main character Lee Everett and a little girl named Clementine, who he meets at the beginning of the game and is set to protect her at all costs. On the way to find a better place or escape for survival, they meet several people and survival groups who may leave or die due to decisions that the players make. The main storyline does not stray too much and the choices that the players make affect more on character development and how the other characters in the game perceive Lee.