The Walking Dead Essay

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In “The Walking Dead” a show about the zombie apocalypse, death plays a leading role. But, in its most resent season, the characters are well aware that death is coming for everyone. There's no cure, no goal to be achieved, and no end is in sight for humanity. Other than the ongoing struggle for survival and love still plays a dominating role, all while forever being overwhelmed by the dangers that surround them.
“The Walking dead” delivers a deeper message to its viewers who can dissect this show past the enormous amount of rotting flesh shuffling aimlessly about. Humanity in “The Walking Dead” series is always being tested by weather or not it sill exists. Individuals are criticized by the lack humanity that is displayed. However, during this time of strife a complex form of love still prevails within the community. The relationships between the characters can turn into unexpected romantic attachments both good and bad. We see survival at the cusp for the two. Struggling to maintain in a savage state where nothing is right and nothing is wrong.
As the show has progressed, the group has gotten more complex, and the original surviving group has encountered other individuals who also have different views of humanity. For example, Merle, who started with the group from the first season but had a different way of doing things. Merle was always one for all and all for one, a major hot head, Merle had no plan in playing by the rules like others in the group did. You can tell by first meeting Merle, that he had no morals before the zombie apocalypse thus he saw a prefect opportunity to flex his badass persona. On the other hand humanity impacted the children as well but in a different way.
The children are now going from an innocent ...

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... scapegoat so that his followers would believe that he had a family and was looking for a new camp to take over so they could live better.
The second example is the woman rick found it the forest after the out break in the jail. She described her husband as being a man that was sick and hungry and that she had done horrible things to protect them. Like the governor she had an attachment to a person that became a zombie believing that he could be cured. She was willing to protect him at any cost because of love.
The ongoing struggle to survive is the basic foundation during a zombie apocalypse. However, in “The Walking Dead” you can experience a world living within another where zombies and the surviving humans struggle to coexist. This show presents a deeper meaning then just surviving at the end of a civilization but taking the necessary steps to rebuild another.

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