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breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. (Shelley Monster pg.20-21). Showing how the
goal he had for himself everyday made him not notice what he was creating would become. We
can also fall into this trap today, like a zombie walking the same patrol every day.
My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead is another good example
of human gone wrong. Written by Chuck Klosterman, it discusses the increasingly popular
zombie which isare very similar to Frankensteins monster. Except instead of being
misunderstood, they are more walking corpses that eat other living things. One thing that is
making zombies grow more popular is the fear they come with, Chuck Klosterman says
Vampires and zombies share an imbedded anxiety about disease. (Monster pg.41). Which is
ever more relevant today as science is continually discovering new more deadly illnesses
throughout the world. Zombies also represent monotony in our daily lives as chuck states,
(Monster 41). zombie killing is philosophically similar to reading and deleting 400 work e-mails
on a Monday morning or filling out paperwork that only generates more paperwork it illustrates
the idea that a zombies life, in other words ie eat walk eat walk moan, is very similar to our own
lives. (Monster pg.41) Zombies represent our unconscious fear of becoming less than human
while we go through our daily lives, the idea that at any time we can become too caught up in the
routine and never be able to get back out. So we use the idea of fighting off zombies daily as a
reminder that even if we beat one issue today, many more have the ability to take its place.
If you look closely enough youLooking closely at these workks reveals it can be seen
how Frankenstein's monster, and zombies
if we give into the normality of this world and work with the crowd all the time. It is aThey
remind reminder to us all how easily we could lose the few things, like independent thought and
personal decision making, that make us human.
Works Cited
Klosterman, Chuck. My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead. Monsters:
A Bedford Spotlight Reader:Ed. Andrew J. Hoffman. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2016.
40-44. Print.
Shelley, Mary. From Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus. Monsters: A Bedford Spotlight
Reader:Ed. Andrew J. Hoffman. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2016. 20-21. Print.