Niall Owens
June 3, 2015
Zombie Article Summary
Angela
Tenga and Elizabeth Zimmerman compared the differences between Vampires and
Zombies in their article “Vampire Gentlemen and Zombie Beasts”. Vampires use to
be a mindless, blood-sucking monster that caused havoc and induced the fear
that Zombies now possess. Entertainment industries have transformed the once
feared Vampire into a fantasy of teenage girls, as in Twilight, they insight
desire with their flawless body and immortality. They are now capable of
controlling their actions and being civil members of Society. A Vampire’s
ability to control their actions creates more desire to become one of them, the
youth and immortality are tempting and the consequences have faded into
history. Tenga and Zimmerman demonstrated
that because of this, Vampires aren’t uncommonly seen as the heroes in many
circumstances. Zombies have not changed much; they are not capable of adapting
to expected norms and fitting in. They are the mindless, rotting dead. It is viral.
The only point of its existence is to extinguish your own. There is no sex
appeal just a reminder that someday our flesh will rot, that our lives will end.
As religion does, it offers a type of “afterlife”, though in this case it is
not a comforting one. The inability to reason with a monster takes them to
another level. Zombies are so popular in our culture this day in age, this
reflects the mass public’s out cry and feeling of being unable to control their
futures. We are a herd of bodies performing day-to-day operations that keeps
the larger machine going. Zombies have no chance of rising from the bottom of
the social pyramid, Vampire could. That is reflected in Zombie wastelands, the
survivors are out of control as are the monsters coming after them, as
demonstrated in the AMC series mentioned in the article, “The Walking Dead.”
While Zombies are a current trend, the vampire will always be a cult classic,
even if they don’t always cause heart-racing panic anymore.
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