Zombies represent modern humanity. They display a modern society exactly like slaughtering zombies. It attempts to display our individual lives to showcase that people resemble Zombies. It shows readers regarding the disapprovingly much-admired original TV-show “the walking dead”. This shows people fascinated with zombies eating brains.
People don’t realize what they do, when they do it. When we fail to take control of what we do, we merely end up like zombies. Zombies prove that humanity is beginning to resemble zombies. The author proves this point by comparing the zombies’ lifestyle to modern man. He likens the how zombies die to our daily routine (Klosterman 425). The author feels daily routine resembles how zombies are killed because it is quite recurrent and boring sometimes.
He also voices about how aimlessly zombies walk around without thinking. He believes Zombies’ aimless walk compares to humans consumed by media and internet. Zombies walk aimlessly around haunting and killing individuals without an actual purpose like humans entering same websites and watching similar TV shows without really recognizing what they are doing.
The author concludes the essay by explicating how zombies never actually extinguish/vanish. Despite being slaughtered, many zombies are still alive. He compares this to how people might never eliminate their “zombie” traits, but must keep fighting “zombies” traits. He substantiates how the world look like zombies’ catastrophe by likening our traits to zombies’ (Klosterman 423). It makes a great sense to metaphorically read monsters from this successful use of metaphor (zombies).
Reference:
Klosterman, Chuck. "My zombie, myself: Why modern life feels rather undead." The New York Times 3 (2010).
