KNOWLEDGE IS POWER....101 reasons why Zombies want to eat Your brains.

Long before Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein people have been fascinated with “The monster” and what it means to be a monstrosity. I knew that psychologically people are always trying to better understand the paper thin line between good and evil or in other words human nature. From this weird fascination came entertainment.  The werewolf as metaphor for man as beast in his most animalistic form, Or the Vampire which is metaphor for sexual morality and desire, but the zombie is a little more complex. The zombie mirrors the human being in every way seeing as thought this monster is human. My theory is Zombies are a metaphor for accepting death as a natural part of life; by showing the consequences of not accepting death. Which leads to as they say in all zombie movies the living dead being “unnatural” an “abomination” mirroring mans fears of death, and reflecting human error. These Zombies always come back looking the way they did before they took rest, dressed and looking living all the while sluggishly moving along in search of human brains. Why brains might you ask? Brains because the only difference between a living and the living dead is their brains aren’t functioning anymore. There is no memory no motor skills, no conscious, no emotions, it’s the only thing that’s keeping them from being “living” again. Its more them just a compulsion with eating thing they shouldn’t. This is a part of the dead tryin to live instead of resting in peace. Zombies are scary due to the fact that it is a very relevant theme to human life is “life beyond the grave (resurrection)”were just use to hearing about it in the religious scene mainly pertain to the spiritual resurrection. (The soul, spirit or ghost living on into an eternity) It’s the thought of Mary Shelly whole moral of Frankenstein and Steven Kings Pet Cemetery both shared an also the most memorable quote of the movie “Sometimes dead is better”

 The ideal of resurrection is embedded into the very foundation of religion, establishing that Jesus Christ rose from the grave after his crucifixion. When Christ resurrected he was not only still in human form but he was still fully alive bearing scares from the crucifixion but, also proving his divinity through ascending to heaven. Jesus Christ’s resurrection is understood as Christ having this ability because he was divinity wrapped in flesh, of course not everyone believes this but this give way for the ideal of “cheating death.”  It makes us as human being question is it wrong to not want to die? (Because it’s apart of life) And even if you could come back from the grave would it be morally right to do so? So both king and Shelly were exploring these ideal of reanimation, its most obvious that Zombies don’t come back from the grave as human it’s constantly reinforced over and over again. In Frankenstein the monster was assembled by other dead people’s bodies’ parts and electricity the question of morality cam about only after he through knowledge became human by gaining both emotion and reasoning, while still appearing monstrous at the same time. Zombies aren’t human they are the fiendish “other” creature. Proof of this is their appearance, their mobility skills and to their violent cannibalism always reiterates they are not human. Leading to the question: You can resurrect but what will YOU come back as? You may appear still human, but you’re anything but. This is why Zombies search for brains in a attempt at regaining their intellect….how many times have we heard “intelligence is what separates human from the animals” (the ability to reason).

Whereas with Zombies they need to be shot in had the thought the brains in order to be re-killed. The connections I am trying to make are the ideal of Zombies stems from some deep psychological human internal fear of death. The ideal of cheating death, somehow coming back to life based on the preface that Christ has done this, and that through manmade tactics (invented from knowledge) this phenomenon can be reenacted. Just like in movies a novels we know but never successfully thought, because this is against God. But people have the hard time understanding this. Which is another theme of Zombie movies human knowledge cause human error (Adam & Eve) which usually causes the Zombie outbreak, The one time resurrection was authorized by God and all other forms of this action aren’t ordained by God it’s unnatural so the people return as Zombies. Also most events that are the cause of Zombie resurrection is due to some grave human error and for this unnatural event taking place the people come back as a plague a punishment and they kill and feed on other living beings to our horror. This becomes entertainment to us from us because it’s a science fiction with rooted in very serious and real situations and steeped in religion like so many other things of the world. This is also why this question gets old “If that was me in the movie I would have…” These Zombie film overall are a warning us about the evils of human Knowledge.