Example Of A Zombie Research Paper

We live in a world where global warming, war, famine, pandemic diseases, and racism are the norm. These occurrences contribute to many social anxieties that society deals with on a day to day basis, raising the question: that if these problems continue to get worse for humanity as we know it, what will become of us as a civilisation? Zombies are defined as corpses, said to be will-less and speechless humans who have died and been supernaturally reanimated. Depicted as emotionless and mindless, their decaying bodies are driven by primal instincts based on an uncontrollable urge: hunger for human brains. The myths of Zombies represent the social, historical, and personal traumas of human lives in which zombies continually revisit and inflict on the living. …show more content…
As described by Clason, “It wants to eat you, and it is exceedingly infectious. Furthermore, the zombie is a counterintuitive and thus the salient idea”- it is a eanimated human corpse and a “person” without a mind (p.225). Zombies are a symbol of the incarnation of some “deep unease within history” as they do not follow society's norms of the dead. (James Berger, 2013 n.p) This essay’s intent is to argue that Zombie Films are a reflection of our post-modern civilisation and what it has become; through a dramatic cinematic view. Adapting a textual analysis of George Ramiro’s Dawn of the dead (1978), and Jonathan Levine’s Warm bodies (2013); these films use ideas of consumerism, Zombie Apocalypse, and discrimination which reflects the social anxieties which the non-infected characters within the film feel in real