The Living Dead

Although the zombies are not as complex of monsters, they are still representative of fears in the

Vampires and zombies are both fictional. However, one does have more of a possibility of being real. The origin story of vampires is that they were the dead rising from hell to wreak havoc; this makes it hard to believe they could exist, considering not everyone believes in an underworld. On the other hand, bacteria are all around us and spread viruses all over the world. This is the origin of the modern day zombie, they are no longer the dead becoming the living, instead, it’s a highly contagious virus that spreads throughout the world. There is even a type of fungus that has been known to “zombify” ants. Making the chance of a zombie invasion even more

Zombies, as we know them today, have mortified movie viewers for the last forty six years. Modern zombies first appeared in George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead in 1968. These zombies were the slow moving, staggering ghouls that one has seen in countless films, but in 1985, Return of the Living Dead featured a new kind of zombie, the first fast moving and talking ghoul. Both Night of the Living dead 1968 and Return of the Living Dead 1985 feature the zombie as its villain, but Return of the living dead’s fast moving, talking zombies are a more modern take on the movie monster.

According to zombie movies and books, there are several steps people can take to stay safe when zombies are on the prowl. Legends and other stories describe zombies as dead people who have been brought back to life. Many reasons are very simple and explain that, why zombies have invaded our media. First reason, is the fear of war or lack of safety. Second, the fear or slavery. Last reason, the virus out-of-control.

Monsters can refer to strange-looking creatures, such as Protoceratops, Godzilla, and Cyclops. Monsters can also be the unnatural beings that share something in common with humankinds, such as vampires, and zombies. In traditional folklores, they were both considered as creatures that will bring fatal illness and gave viruses and bacteria (Day 12). Along with the spread of vampire stories from Eastern Europe to America, vampires often show the potential for improvement (Butler 89). Zombies, however, were initially popularized in Haitain, but the story of zombies make them only gotten worse after it came to America, and today they are known as basically human garbage (Butler 92) It seems that vampires occupy the summit of the supernatural world, while zombies remain stuck at the bottom (Butler 90). But no matter how ultimately different forms that vampires and zombie present, it seems that the breakdown of society is unavoidable.

Critics and cultural writers assert that my monster, zombies, is vulnerable to change. I agree with many authors, scholars and critics that the zombie has been evolving over the course of time, but I wanted to go deeper into this idea and add to it. How have they evolved? In what ways? Everything evolves overtime. This is just how the world functions. We are always craving the newest technology, the newest line of clothing. We as humans strive for the very best and will restlessly keep on changing the world until we are satisfied. I believe that this has a huge impact on how zombies are depicted nowadays. Over time zombies have been constantly changing in a variety of ways. Not only have they changed in their appearance, but they have grown

Zombies aren’t real… Right? They aren’t in a true sense; there aren’t corpses digging themselves from the grave and following us around. However, people who suffer from Cotard’s Delusion, or Walking Dead Syndrome, believe they are dead and/ or missing body parts. In 2013, approximately one thousand people were HIT, AFFECTED by Cotard’s, which is a miniscule percentage of the population.

The undead are everywhere in popular culture. Zombies appear in video games such as Doom, Zelda and Left 4 Dead. They are in movies like 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, and Zombieland. They are in books like those of Max Brooks. However, I am no expert when it comes to everything that zombies are in, just what has caught my attention.

Most of the time when you think of the word zombie, you think of a walking corpse that will eat your face as soon as it gets the chance. What if we thought of zombies as an animal that is brought back from the dead? Well, in that case, zombies have been around for a while. According to David Casarett, author of Reanimated Chickens and Zombie Dogs, for over two-hundred years, scientist have pushed relentlessly at life’s terminus, trying to find new ways to bring people back from the dead when their hearts stop. There are many scientist that even grew famous for these discoveries, theories and experiments. There are a few that may be disturbing to some readers, but they are worth the mention.

The meaning of the word zombie has shifted in public perception rather drastically a number of times over the last fifty years largely as a result of their rise in popularity in the zeitgeist. What we think of as zombies today are largely myth of course, but there is a grain of truth. It dates back to the 8th century, (possibly earlier according to some speculation in fact) the word 'zombie ' is said to have come from nzambi, which in Kongo means 'spirit of a dead person ', or zonbi, used in the Louisiana or Haitian Creole that represents a person who died and was then brought to life without speech or free will. For the purposes of this paper I’ll be tracing the Haitian route. (Zombies: A Living History)

The author Chuck Klosterman really does explain the meaning of zombies. I don’t know about the accuracy of it because I don’t really know much about them. Zombies and vampires aren’t alike, yes they are both not alive anymore but zombies are the ones that relate to AIDS not vampires. As a zombie you look like you had a really bad disease that messed up your whole body inside and out and then died. As a vampire you drink vampires blood die and come back still beautiful and young but also strong and fast (based on The Vampire Diaries). Chuck Klosterman thinks that slaughtering zombies is a lot like modern life in the way that you fill out paperwork just for more paperwork to come just as

When picturing a zombie the image of a undead person looking for its next human meal comes to mind. While this is the foundation of what the contemporary belief of a zombie is, the actual origin has a far deeper and darker history than what is portrayed today. In the 17th century, Haiti; at the time known as Saint-Domingue, was colonized by France. Slaves were brought in from Africa to work on the sugar plantations. These slaves were subject to such brutal and horrible conditions that many of them died after a few years of service at a rate two to three times higher than any other type of plantation (Berlin 21). A belief rose among the slaves that if they died, they would return to la guinée (Africa) and be free - but there was a catch. If they committed suicide; as many did, they would not be allowed to return to la guinée and instead would spend eternity at the plantation as an undead slave (Mariani).

It is been awhile since zombies began to appear. Zombie apocalypse has become inescapable themes in popular culture. They are spreading rabidly from the beginning of early 20th literature to our modern popular culture. Up to World War Z that gave a new entry to the zombie apocalypse move. Though it did not outshine like the walking dead, World War Z brought a fresh thing to the world of zombies, something that is missing the scene of gore.

Zombies. Fear and fascination seem to follow this seemingly harmless word wherever it is mentioned. However, in some cultures, it means much more. Many in Haiti believe it is a form of punishment brought on by voodoo priests upon those that do not obey their cultural laws. Some modern day Americans believe it will be the end of humankind and some in Africa associate the word Nzambi, meaning zombie, with a snake-like God. Yet, the word seems to be covered in mystics and mysteries dating back before the slave trade of Africa. So how did these mysterious creatures come to light? How has their legend lived so long? More importantly, how and why were these creatures created?

In the philosophical sense, a zombie is an exact physical duplicate of a person without any experiential consciousness. Therefore it has identical physical properties to a person, it has no phenomenal consciousness and therefore has different mental properties. Given the laws of our universe, zombies