Dictatorship In The Walking Dead

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The Walking Dead is a comic book based television series that first premiered October 31st, 2010 on AMC and is currently on its sixed season. The show is placed is a post Apocalyptic Zombie infested world. The story’s main plot is of struggling survivors trying to stay alive in a world that is overrun by Zombies, otherwise known as “walkers”. The story’s main characters or main group is lead by Rick Grimes. Rick Grimes, a sheriff, awakens from a hospital to find out the world has gone to hell; his main goal is the survival of his group and along the way he meets a number of different people both good and bad that both harm and help him to achieve his goal.
Chaos runs whiled as zombies have taken over the streets and land of the United States.
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The show depicts a dictatorship as something horrible that only results in bad things. The dictatorship side of the walking dead is viewed as an evil thing, and the groups in the walking dead that are based on a dictatorship are also viewed as evil or as the “bad guys”. This has a similar resemblance as to how we in the Untied States view a dictatorship. The word dictatorship seems to bring to mind evil and corruption to the American people, which is exactly what the Walking Dead it trying to …show more content…
The “governor is the leader and dictator of a different group that plans to take everything away from Rick and his democratic state. The “governor” works as the man who always makes the decisions in his group; he rules with an iron fist that destroys anyone who is in his way. Rick and his democratic group are represented as the good people while the “governor” is represented as the bad guy. Well the “governor” is in fact insane and is rotten to the core and has killed many innocent people in order to gain support as well as supplies for his group. In many ways this is also a representation has to how the Walking Dead tries portray what a dictator looks like and; as well as portraying how a dictator in the real world is evil and the wrong way to lead people. The show also expresses how a dictatorship would not work do to the fact that in the show the “governor” and his government crumbles as a result of bad judgment on the ‘governors”

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