Frankenstein Pros And Cons To Humans
Opposite to the other monsters, zombies are mindless, without purpose and any agenda but the flesh lust. They don't have any superpowers whatsoever – no superstrength, no supervision, they don't glow in the sun and do reflect in the mirror; they didn't come from another planet, or not living quietly for the centuries simply observing this dull world, without threatening our lifestyle. It “epitomises the other presenting a range of oppositions to the human, in giving animation to death, absence of the self and expressing the opposite of what defines the human as living, self reflective and conscious, and sentient” - Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil Niall Scott
Yes, zombies are us – after a lab accident, genetic mutation or meteorite fallen down being at the same time “the antithesis of our human identity (therefore, monstrous)” Niall Scott. And it is horrifying to become one of them. Partially, because the perspective is always the same – you’ll be a mindless walker, driven by the urge to feed, and then in a perspective eating, and even worse - contaminating your loved ones for the same ‘inhuman’ life. As Sarah Juliet Lauro and Karen Embry state: ”The loss of control of the individual body and psyche is to become subhuman or wholly inhuman in the eyes of the viewer… Humanity defines itself by its individual consciousness and its personal agency: to be a body without a mind is to be subhuman, animal; to be a human without agency is to be a prisoner, a slave. The zombi(i)/e is both of these, and the zombi(i)/e (fore)tells our past, present, and future. 12 Sarah Juliet Lauro and Karen Embry, “A Zombie Manifesto: The Nonhuman Condition in the Era of Advanced Capitalism,” boundary2 35, no.1 (Spring, 2008): 95.
Yes, zombies are us – after a lab accident, genetic mutation or meteorite fallen down being at the same time “the antithesis of our human identity (therefore, monstrous)” Niall Scott. And it is horrifying to become one of them. Partially, because the perspective is always the same – you’ll be a mindless walker, driven by the urge to feed, and then in a perspective eating, and even worse - contaminating your loved ones for the same ‘inhuman’ life. As Sarah Juliet Lauro and Karen Embry state: ”The loss of control of the individual body and psyche is to become subhuman or wholly inhuman in the eyes of the viewer… Humanity defines itself by its individual consciousness and its personal agency: to be a body without a mind is to be subhuman, animal; to be a human without agency is to be a prisoner, a slave. The zombi(i)/e is both of these, and the zombi(i)/e (fore)tells our past, present, and future. 12 Sarah Juliet Lauro and Karen Embry, “A Zombie Manifesto: The Nonhuman Condition in the Era of Advanced Capitalism,” boundary2 35, no.1 (Spring, 2008): 95.