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The Night Of The Living Dead Character Analysis

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A monster instill fear, by behaving different from humans. A monster is often seen as an outcast that has a bad quality and is often, put on display. In the article Blake and Cooper state “Monsters have always been symbolic creatures, generally representing darkness or evil, providing foils for the heroes of myth and legend. Monsters often have an aura of darkness which is given to them by people who fear them. The monster of a significant of the darkness when in us. The slight chance of being similar to a monster is outrageous to human, because they can’t imagine themselves a evil. We can all be outcast at one point or another, and monster allow us to see our evil thoughts come alive. Sometime we can to kill people because they made of aggravated, …show more content…

The Night of the Living Dead shows how society is at it breaking point, and how it’s the fault of humans. There is no cure to the infectious, and the good guy doesn’t win at the end. Like today many people are suffering, because of President Trump not thinking before he acts. We are on the brim of a war due to his tweets about North Korea. The national at a whole is constantly being distracted from his action, the new generation is becoming aware, and fighting back. The film represents the optimism from when taken place in the 1960s. Authority cant not be trusted, and society doesn’t know which humans are to be trusted. Behind every person their could be a zombie, and you aren’t aware of it until it eats you, like Karen Cooper eats her father. Like today, and back in that era politics where doubtful, and could not be …show more content…

The ending of Night of the Living Dead was one that I would have never expected, with today movies they all end with the good guy, as the winner. The films ending shows many themes from racism, to gender roles from that time period. The officer didn’t go closer to Ben but took the shoot killing an innocent person. It should how easily black life’s were taken without second thought. Even though he was helping the other people Ben was thrown into the zombies without any remorse. Women are also portrayed at the ending as kind hearted idiots who out of love died. Mrs. Cooper is killed by her daughter after she misses her chance of escaping because he is dwelling on her innocent daughter turn into a zombie. Barbara is often given the same behavior once she throw herself into her brothers arms, because she missed him even with knowing her was a

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