I Like Godzilla Persuasive Essay

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All things considered, Godzilla and Them ! symbolize human’s will to survive and move on after catastrophic events, or anxieties of death. Monsters like Godzilla are important for humans who are coping with fear of death. The people of Japan had to overcome traumatic event’s of death which stole from them their basic human right. The right to live. Humans deal with their fear of death in many ways. It goes to show that some humans themselves are monsters and at times science can be evil. The monstrosity in the human race is seen through our creation of wars, deadly weapons, and controlling nature. Sometimes it’s better off for man to let nature be and not to interfere with it. Nature works in special ways and never has needed humans. We need nature to survive. …show more content…
But, I am aware that there is still good out there. Movies, stories, music, art, writing, and nature. The reality of it all is that humans cope with fears of death because it is a part of the human experience we have no way to overcome death itself. Likewise, in Japan Americans suffered fear of communist infiltration, super bugs, and death by nuclear weapons. Americans were the first to use science fiction films to help them cope with such fears. Till today science fiction try’s to show humans the dangerous of man’s meddling in nature. These films are the start of one of the world’s most famous and critiqued genre of all time science fiction. Science fiction is one of the most fascinating genre it sympathizes with human experiences making them nowhere relatable. Yet, they still carry a tone of symbolism of the anxieties and threats that exist in society during that specific year. “It is not what we fear that can define us it is what we can’t overcome.” (Vanessa

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