Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion is a romantic novel that has similar aspects to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It follows a zombie on his journey of falling in love with a human called Julie. This novel, written in 2010 and set in a post zombie apocalypse, examines the roles of identity and memory in an ever changing world for zombies and humans alike.
The role of memory and identity in Warm Bodies for zombies is a concept they have to grasp. As R said on the fourth page of the book “No one I know has any specific memories.” The zombies have to learn to live with no memories of the past and embrace the present moment. “I am dead, but it's not so bad. I’ve learned to live with it.” (p. 1) R said. R has learnt to live with him, having zero memories of who he was before being a zombie and what life might have been like. He is at ease with the fact that he is dead and it’s not so bad …show more content…
As Julie Dad General Grigio said on page 199 “The world is over. It can’t be cured, it can’t be salvaged, it can’t be saved.” They in their minds are trapped in today’s world, not willing to change for the better. For the powerful old generals in power, they aren’t willing to just ponder into their memories when in the past they overcame even more difficult tasks before the zombie apocalypse. The same with the boneys who always insist on the status quo of eating humans for the sake of it, because that is their identity. When R said on page 207, “I’m not a general or a colonel.. I’m just a corpse who wants not to be.” It proves the point that even a zombie who has no memories or real sense of identity of who he is is able to fight the status quo of zombies eating humans and can help lead the fight of curing this plague. This tells you a whole lot about the old humans in power and boney who are so obsessed with their own status quo and not wanting to change for the
The role of memory and identity in Warm Bodies for zombies is a concept they have to grasp. As R said on the fourth page of the book “No one I know has any specific memories.” The zombies have to learn to live with no memories of the past and embrace the present moment. “I am dead, but it's not so bad. I’ve learned to live with it.” (p. 1) R said. R has learnt to live with him, having zero memories of who he was before being a zombie and what life might have been like. He is at ease with the fact that he is dead and it’s not so bad …show more content…
As Julie Dad General Grigio said on page 199 “The world is over. It can’t be cured, it can’t be salvaged, it can’t be saved.” They in their minds are trapped in today’s world, not willing to change for the better. For the powerful old generals in power, they aren’t willing to just ponder into their memories when in the past they overcame even more difficult tasks before the zombie apocalypse. The same with the boneys who always insist on the status quo of eating humans for the sake of it, because that is their identity. When R said on page 207, “I’m not a general or a colonel.. I’m just a corpse who wants not to be.” It proves the point that even a zombie who has no memories or real sense of identity of who he is is able to fight the status quo of zombies eating humans and can help lead the fight of curing this plague. This tells you a whole lot about the old humans in power and boney who are so obsessed with their own status quo and not wanting to change for the