The Walking Dead Analysis

When Annina and Rick converse, Rick feels conflicted. This section represents the trials, or second threshold battle, that the hero goes through before undertaking the apotheosis stage. Annina is challenging Rick to look past his hubris, selfishness, and make a selfless decision out of sympathy. Annina is in distress. She is a character with whom to sympathize and she is desperate to achieve security for her and her family. When Rick finds out just how desperate Annina is to receive the travel visas, one can see his internal conflict. This internal battle that Rick undergoes is his second threshold battle. Not only is it a conflict that coincides with the cosmogonic cycle, the stage is undergone right before the apotheosis stage, which lines it up perfectly with the Hero’s Journey.

I think Rick will try and get back at Jen for breaking up with him. I think that Rick is doing this for a couple of reasons the first reason is embarrassment. Rick did not get a job at a burger joint because he wanted

One of the television shows that best displays many of the concepts that have been discussed in sociology is The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead is a show that contains and exemplifies many aspects of group dynamics and other sociological concepts. In the show, groups of people are forced to deal with the end of the world as they know it and try to rebuild their lives and try to stay alive. Although the lives of these people are far from normal, they still have to work together, and also work against each other in order to survive. One of the main sociological group dynamics present in The Walking Dead is conflict.

Unsurprisingly, if the basic under workings of human nature are changing, human relationships are changing, too. Deep, caring human connections are rare. People, due to the survival instinct, are more competitive minded and, as such, more judgmental. Never does Rick Deckard ever really mention anyone as a dear friend. He only refers to a neighbor to up show in animal ownership, or a coworker to outdo, or a wife to resent for spending his hard earned money. Early on in the story we find that he doesn't really care about his wife, nor does she really care about him. They are just going through the motions of what should be a mutually caring relationship. The only thing he ever mentioned loving, or anyone else he knew ever loving, was an animal. Empathy, the only human characteristic depended upon, is ever rare between people. It actually is a forced emotion, brought on by use of a Mercerism empathy box. The only empathic thought made for others is when people are superficially and supernaturally connected with them. Being human, Rick already struggles with empathy, but also being a bounty hunter, forces him to forgo the feeling entirely in the case of androids. So, how human can an android hunter really claim to be?

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.

If Ilsa had her way, she would remain in Casablanca with Rick to try to rekindle the relationship they had. Rick, however, wanted Ilsa to go and be with her husband. Rick’s journey was truly one of love. His final act of love for Ilsa involved giving up the relationship he wanted the most because of the love he had for her. Rick must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her husband escape Casablanca. He makes the right choice.

If two lovers do not share their past with each other it is clear that they are not exactly intimate or committed. Intimacy and commitment would require trust and sharing things besides their own bodies, it seems that was not their case. “The Intimate Relationship Mind” says that “in flings or one-night stands, passion can run high, whereas intimacy and commitment are probably low” (75). Rick and Ilsa’s relationship seemed to work like that. Nevertheless, there was a moment when Rick’s feeling started to develop and he started to want more intimacy and commitment. That moment was when the Nazis invaded Paris, and Rick and Ilsa decided to run away. Rick proposed to Ilsa and she didn’t really accept. When Ilsa stood Rick up in the train station the intimacy and commitment that he wanted faded away, just like the writing on the letter faded away because of the rain. In his face, however, it could still be seen that the passion remained there. In the end of the movie when Rick says: “We’ll always have Paris. We didn’t have, we’d lost it, until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.” He seems to accept that all he and Ilsa have ever had was a passionate relationship and that it was not supposed to last forever.

The unusual part is that true empathy comes from Rick because Rachel starts to cry and instantly Rick says “You’re not a replicant. It was a nasty joke.” This is all in attempt to take back the words and meaning they had behind them; like when a parent tells their child Santa Clause is real after accidently letting it slip that he is not, or when a child asks if they are adopted and they really are but the parent tries to deny it. The part that is very interesting in this scene is that Rick feels bad and tries to help Rachel not feel sad after destroying her the fact he feels empathy for a replicant is out of the ordinary because his job is to kill

In the novel, there is great religious influence in the form of Mercerism in which there is a belief that humans should share empathy through a device called the “empathy box,” which congregates the users’ conscience into one place to connect with Mercer. When using the device, the user is submerged into another reality, where everyone shares their feelings and emotions to one another. After continuous usage of it however, the characters have a self-conflict of affirming their existence. In this quote, Rick had just felt being merged with Mercer, only this time, without an empathy box.

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

Rick, throughout the movie used the bar and drinking as a way to avoid pain from the past. In the movie he often would say “I stick my neck out for nobody”. When Ilsa showed up in Casablanca for the first time, she ran into Rick. When Rick saw her he was shocked and couldn't believe it. That night he sat in the bar, drank, and started thinking about the past when he was happy and in love with Ilsa. At that moment we see why he doesn't want to go home to his girlfriend and why he doesn't stick his neck out for anyone, because he is afraid of being hurt, again. The bar he owned was a way to avoid all of the pain Ilsa caused him and how mad she made him. Even Ilsa was running with Victor to avoid pain from the past, and what she did to Rick. She knew that she loved Rick more than Victor, after seeing Rick again she didn't know what to do. She never planned on seeing him again, and she never wanted to, seeing Rick would bring back memories that she was trying to escape and avoid dealing

Douglas A. Mackey writes that since Dick had “five marriages and innumerable other romantic relationships” he argued with his wife regularly (1). This comes out in the novel when Rick snaps at a single phrase from his wife. After waking up in a dismayed mood and resisting Rick’s attempts to cheer her up, Iran titles Rick as a “murderer hired by the cops” (Dick 4). Rick, having received this one malignant comment, quickly snaps into an aggressive mood. It is unsurprising how Rick reacts to his wife’s comment when Dick himself would act the same way to any of his companions (Mackey 2).

Rick accepted this job knowing that he would get a good amount of money by killing these androids; although, he didn’t think about the consequences that would later take a toll on him mentally. Rick became depressed as he had previously killed three androids. After calling his wife excitedly, exclaiming that he had just killed his first android and was going to be able to buy a real animal with the money that he would receive, he became even more upset when his wife didn’t even show any support and hardly bothered to listen to him. Rick even proclaims that he should have let his wife go years ago when they were about to split. Dick wrote, “Most androids I’ve known have more vitality and desire to live than my wife.

In the face of innate danger and doom, surrounded by an overwhelming amount of flesh eating zombies, referred to as walkers and the threat of having no way out, Rick goes out alone and begins taking on what seem like thousands of walkers all by his lonesome. Showing this sheer bravery and instinct needed to rally his pack, his neighbors, his friends, his family, and even previous enemies bound by the ties of maintaining and preserving life rallies to his aide. He allows everyone to see his vulnerabilities and that he is willing to die for them, and they in turn come to his aide willing to die for themselves. In this episode Rick was able to take the weakest, the most cowardice, frail, and most underhanded and give them the will to fight. Rick’s fearlessness and fed up with running attitude, gave his pack, his post apocalypse family the will to

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