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Symbolism In The Walking Dead
In the world of today people have conjured up various ideas for various types of modern day apocalypses that human beings have become so fixated on. From natural, more or so unnatural, disasters ravaging the planet to aliens invading and attempting to conquer the Earth, these apocalyptic ideas have become quite popular in shows, games, and books. Within these ideas have been common themes that show what the apocalypse has done to the world and how the remnants of humanity are surviving. And usually within these shows, books, and games, there is some sort of symbolism that the creator(s) have either made blatantly easy for viewers to catch or well hidden taking a trained eye to find. Why the symbolism? Perhaps the creator(s) are wishing for the viewers to grasp and learn from the hidden meanings. The meanings may be meant to teach something valuable and maybe even prepare the viewers for a future apocalypse or prevent one.
In the television show The Walking Dead, a plague has swept across the world killing off or turning a majority of humans into mindless, shambling zombies and leaving only a few remnants of humanity left to survive in a new world. Governments have fallen across the world and `most remnants of humanity have banded
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In the very first episode of the series The Walking Dead, after gearing up and parting ways with Morgan and his son, Rick Grimes heads back to the park were he had encountered the legless zombie who was dragging itself across the ground, stuck in an infernal cycle of searching for a meal though it would never accomplish the task. Rick eventually finds the pitiful zombie and mercifully kills it. When Rick kills the zombie, in a way it shows he has truly comes to terms of what new world he is living in, ending his old life a sheriff’s deputy and starting a new one as a survivor in a familiar, but foreign

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