Tv Show Lost Character Analysis

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The television show Lost (2004-2010) was a very talked-about show. With its unordinary storyline, its cliff hangers and its unsolved mysteries, the show kept its audience riveted. The show is questions within questions: mysteries on top of other mysteries, comedy, love stories, action/adventure and science fiction. J.J Abrams, the producer of the show, tried to create a nail-biter, a provoking show like a good novel that never quits. The producer has created a timeless television show, touching on every aspect of the human condition by subjecting flawed but redeemable characters to extraordinary situations. The island of Lost foregrounds a kind of hell. This hell is another dimension that does not exist outside this plane of existence. Imagine hell is a real, physical place with unsurprising physical natural laws that are simply different from the laws of physics or laws of nature in the "normal" world. The purpose of the island seems to create hell for people. In hell (the island), survivors healed faster so they could be tortured more often. At some point in season 3, the character of Juliet, …show more content…
The life of the characters before the crash portrayed in the flashbacks in the show, represent the life of the audience before the show Lost aired on television. The afterlife of the characters which is if the plane had not crashed represents the point of view of the audience after the show, just like the show never existed and all viewers go back to their lives like nothing happened. And the end, which is the church part, represents the moment where the audience realizes the truth about the show. The very last seven minutes of the show, which is supposed to represent the end for the characters, also represents the end for the audience. Christian Sheperd has a conversation with his son in the church

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