Planet Of The Apes Stolen Society

In Planet of the Apes, there is the hanging question of how the apes even came to dominate over mankind in the first place; perhaps, they just stole man’s entire culture and called it their own without due credit. Taylor mentions that the apes “owe him [man] your science, your culture, whatever civilization you’ve got,” making it incredibly likely that Ape City is a stolen society (“Planet”). These arguments are rendered as invalid though because of the actions of the humans in each respective story in that they equate to animals more than the creatures themselves. In Fantastic Mr. Fox, the humans are very narrow-minded, focused on the goal of murdering the creatures rather than negotiating or even providing the necessary resources for their

Seeing that they are a hybrid of animal and human, they have created societies that mirror that of human societies, generating a connection between their inner human instincts and outer bestiality. This idea is most clearly depicted through Ape City as the primates live in a world that is an exact mirror of humanity considering the time period of the late 1960s, complete with an integration of church and state, a male dominance, dependence on ‘Holy Scriptures,’ and a disbelief of evolution. It is important to note that Taylor does not change his viewpoint throughout the entirety of the film, showing his inability to accept that this new hierarchy does not feature humans at the peak. Perhaps this is due to the fact that he is in shock, unable to comprehend the reality that apes have taken over the world; it is a future that everyone from his past was either anxious about or in disbelief of. This anxiety is reciprocated in the actions of humans today, seen through the actions taken against Harambe the gorilla (citation). The issue today though is that we have no way to communicate with primates as Taylor did, but despite the fact that he was able to hold conversation with them, there was still a definitive line that bound them to their societal roles. The notion of a mirrored society is furthered by Taylor, who believes himself to be the Adam of this new world, tasked with creating a larger human population and ensuring that mankind returns to his ‘natural’ societal role, intensifying the dynamic between the ape society and its human