Introduction
There is controversy as to what is the scariest thing to human beings about the zombie and everyone scampers for refuge when they come across a zombie. It has been said that we are most intensely aware of ourselves as subjects when we feel afraid. This is, especially when we feel our bodies are threatened by an external force like a zombie. Fear increases the awareness of ourselves since individuality is endangered in situations that are life- threatening. This is found in the model of a zombie attack. The following are instances of zombie infestations, the refuge people take, the place they take refuge and the implication of the zombies.
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That particular are in London is completely walled, and the armies wander around protecting people from the zombies. The area is walled to keep zombies in check. The English countryside is a refuge for the Englishmen in the country. The English countryside is a refuge from the zombie infestation. In the English countryside, zombies represent some barbarous savages, they are totally unwanted and feared. In Romero’s second zombie movie, Dawn of the Dead that was produced in 1978, people who had survived the zombie infestation stayed in a small hole within a shopping mall. This was their refuge place. The shopping mall and its hole forms a refuge for a group of people who were defending the refuge space from dangerous zombies. The shopping mall is a refuge from the zombies during the apocalypse. The zombies in this film represent some illegal immigrants In the fourth Romero’s zombie movie, the Land of the Dead, of 2005, the refuge is Pittsburgh, the USA where a heavy security at the border is set up by the leader Dennis Kaufman. Pittsburgh and its tight security is a refuge from the ongoing zombie siege and a fear of illegal entry through the Mexican border into the USA. The area is a refuge to the people of Pittsburgh, USA and even for the leader who wants to maintain the status quo. To ensure the status quo, Dennis Hopper’s Kaufman, the self-appointed leader of Pittsburgh.