The Fear Of Xenophobia In Kirkman's The Walking Dead

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How many times have you been scared awake by zombies after watching shows or reading comics? Zombies, a particular group of survival horror, are basically dead people who come back to us in an evil way. From novels to Hollywood films, we look like cowards who are repeatedly scared by zombies. How can we still get shocks in this age of scientific society? The answer is that zombies come back with cultural messages in stories, which express our extraordinary fears. Such a horrible story was created by Kirkman, in The Walking Dead he depicted zombies as a horrible metaphor for xenophobia by combining fear of otherness with infectious disease; as a result, fear of contagion fuses with our fear of outsiders, increasing the unequal treatment of immigrants in contemporary society. Kirkman describes zombies as an infectious horror in order to establish a close relationship between zombies and contagions. One of the The Walking Dead’s most brilliant successes has been the characterization of the zombies , and it may be the secret of their popularity. In his book, The Walking Dead, Kirkman …show more content…

We’ve been so hounded in recent years with dire warnings about terrorist attacks. For example, Tyreese who has always been treated as an outsider in the book. When Rick and Tyreese planned to split two zombies up, both of them attacked zombies and try to get that one’s attention. However, these two zombies come to Tyreese together and overlook Rick with instinctions. Perhaps Tyreese’s unfamiliar skin-color turns him into the unique prey of zombies. In such case, zombies are attributed with racial prejudices and chauvinism, which falsely educated us that we should only band together with someone who is similar with

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