Studying the zombie and zombie apocalypse for the past seven weeks has been an interesting experience. When I signed up for a class about zombies, my parents questioned me and my friends laughed. Before participating in this zombie class I thought the zombie was simply a monster with no meaning. I thought the zombie was a brain dead creature with no motivation in life. Little did I know, the zombie and the post-apocalyptic setting means so much more. The zombie and apocalypse are metaphors for bigger things connected to the world we live in. This semester I have realized that the zombie apocalypse represents the total breakdown of society. This includes the lack of technology, lack of government, and lack of social interactions within …show more content…
I believe that one important fact to consider when thinking about the “traditional zombie plot” is that everything happens so quickly. This is most likely because there is a limited time in movies and they want to get their point to fit in a one movie. Although, it seems that in today’s society with today’s technology, the apocalypse would not have such an intense effect in such a short amount of time. The movie Dawn of the Dead, depicts the full effects of a zombie apocalypse overnight. Even Contagion shows a disease that rapidly spreads in such a short amount of time. In week two and week three we focused more on technology and how the apocalypse would be affected by newly produced and even current technology. In between these two weeks we participated in the zombie project. I enjoyed the zombie project and really like creating and implementing a form of technology. I used a solar powered car as my technology. I thought of this idea while driving on the highway with my dad. He is in the automotive industry so while driving sometimes he brings up information about cars. I knew that the zombie project was coming up and I asked him about solar powered cars as well as hydrogen fuel cell cars. Both of these cars seemed like good options but through much thought, the solar powered car seemed like the best option. It has not wasted and only requires sunlight which will be created during a possible
The article “My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead,” written by Chuck Klosterman, discusses the reasons behind zombies becoming so popular. Klosterman writes that rise of popularity of zombies is different than that of vampires. He states that most monsters are initially created as representations of fear. Similar to that of Frankenstein or vampires, Klosterman explains that zombies could be viewed in the same light; however, zombies are better explained as an allegory for our day to day existence. Rather than some innate fear, Klosterman highlights this fact to be why zombies have risen to such high popularity.
She allows the reader to truly imagine themselves in a zombie apocalypse by using description and comparison. “If you work in the many white-collar fields that have suffered in this recession, zombies are the perfect representation of the fiscal horror show” (Bosch, 651). Any reader that works in the white-collar fields, or knows anyone that does, can relate to what Bosch is saying because she used a vivid description and a comparison in one sentence. Readers will read this line and imagine their work chaos during the recession and immediately visualize zombies taking over the world and the madness that goes along with that. “There was a recession. It was a time of unemployment – of white-collar employment…” (Warner, 197). She also uses another type of figurative language: a metaphor. When she talks about the reality of zombie television shows and movies, she used a metaphor to compare modern day zombies to unicorns. “[n]o longer are zombies the beloved genre of the lonely, virgin teenage male, the macabre flipside of the girls’ obsession with unicorns” (Bosch, 651). She uses this metaphor to enhance the reader’s reading experience with humor but also by allowing the reader to understand how modern day zombie television shows and movies are looked upon. It is no longer for guts and gore but for fondness of shows and
Rodney Clapp, writer, editor for Wipf and Stock Publishers and expert in topics such as theology and culture, in the article, “Attack of the Zombies”, argues that many things in life are beginning to resemble zombies. Clapp assumes that the audience also views zombies as lifeless creatures that go around spreading their disease. The author’s purpose is to persuade the audience to believe that many things they see today are starting to resemble zombies. The author writes in a challenging tone for people who question the similarity of zombies to every day life. Clapp supports his argument by comparing and contrasting, and exemplification.
“Since this century started, we’ve suffered the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression." is said in the passage Here Comes the Zombie by Kathiann M. Kowalski. This passage describes the emotions of zombies and their setting. Mythical creatures help humans make sense of the world by showing emotion, making up cultural practices and allowing people to go on adventures to see if they are real. To start it off, the first way that mythical creatures help humans make sense of the world is through them showing emotion. In the story, "Here comes the zombies" by Kathiann M. Kowalski states "Zombies can represent everything from war and disease to just a fear of being disconnected from other people.
During the atomic age, the zombie was born, as a new monster that resembled Cold War anxieties. One of the most known fears was the fear of the spread of communism in the United States that would "[turn] citizens into mindless hordes." Nowadays, zombies have developed and are not stupid and slow as shown in the first zombie movies, but they are smart and fast today. The perfect killing machines. Zombies can be compared to "terrorist sects and sleeper cells [...]" (66). The zombie walked represents insecurity in a culture, about "who we are, who the enemy is, and whether s/he is us." The zombie walk helps participants to express their feelings about cultural anxieties related to death and warfare. The destructive force of zombies is detectible in modern anxieties over terrorism and worldwide war. Here, zombies walks have a deep meaning. They "act as a means for working through [...] the structural conditions of a new and violence that so
AHHHHhhhhhh........! Imagine being awakened by a soft, distance scream. Wide awake, the world returns to being silent except for a racing heartbeat. Suddenly, a soft resonating moan starts to fill the empty air of the bedroom. Looking out the window, the world is an eerie grey with nothing moving but the occasional garbage blowing in the wind. Suddenly the horizon begins to change as a crowd of people begin to emerge. Watching nervously, the figures get closer and turn into something much more menacing. They are all disease-invested, flesh-rotted, brain-hungry zombies! Where did these undead monsters come from? How do they survive? What
No book has captivated the zombie apocalypse better than World War Z. Max Brooks creatively presents “a worldwide zombie pandemic from outbreak to aftermath” (Boyd, Tristan). His book encompasses many social and political themes in the world today. The book
Thus, the future of zombie movies depends entirely on the circumstances if the future, and the events and fears occurring in the world at the time
Vampires and Zombies are common in today’s modern world through the use of the media. In this essay, I will be talking about how each of these beings say something about society, how vampires have been portrayed across time and how zombies have been portrayed. By doing this, I will use two references from TV shows.
The idea of the end being near is yet again what has been reached and get associated with zombies, the fear of zombies is no more the sole fear of zombies but has become the fear of a zombie apocalypse. Anyhow every rendition in its own
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
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.
Surviving the zombie apocalypse is exponentially less difficult than people think. You could survive the zombie without hurting a soul. You could steal everything and use harmful reasoning. Certain items needed survive are not as rare as you would think. Some sources think zombies are attracted by sounds. Others believe they can see and locate you by smell. Zombies may be decaying and have an unpleasant bloodlust, but surviving the zombie apocalypse is not so difficult. Rules are applied to make it easy are useful.
There are many political theories in the world today. Drezner addresses how realism, liberalism, constructivism, neo-conservatism, and bureaucratic politics would face the threat of a zombie apocalypse throughout his book. Each theory presented with the possibility of a world where the dead walk amongst the living and feed on their flesh, and then Drezner would elaborate on how each political theory would unfold if the world were to decide to pursue that particular political theory. This elaboration helps us determine if the world could even survive a zombie apocalypse. Although many people would ask is the threat of a zombie apocalypse even a
Survival and disaster preparation are relevant in the stories in the novel. Several interviews, especially those from the United States, focus on policy changes designed to train the surviving Americans to fight the zombies and rebuild the country. For example, when cities were made to be as efficient as possible in order to fight the zombies, the art of using real places and locations to describe these disasters, or when the ultra-rich hide in their homes, which had been turned into fortified compounds, they were overwhelmed by others trying to get in, leading to mass slaughter. Throughout the novel, characters demonstrate the physical and mental requirements needed to survive a disaster. There were so many disasters that can be related to the outrageous earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcano eruptions, etc. Zombie apocalypse can most likely be a reality through the spread a deadly virus. Brooks described the large amount of research needed to find optimal methods for fighting a worldwide zombie outbreak.