Originally by: Crumplecorn

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Originally by: WGAnubis Marrith

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If you examine the classic role of the undead from a symbolic point of view it becomes rather easy to understand zombies:

Vampires = sexual desire
Werewolves = mans animal instinct
Zombies = fanatisim

When a zombie bites you, you become a zombie. This is a metaphor for how things, for example, a cause, can consume a people and spread to others. The traditional "zombie shuffle" is meant to represent the fact that while you can outrun them, they are always going to keep coming. The decomposing state of a zombie, thats really just to add shock value.

Unfortunitely, hollywood seems to be in the habbit of missing the point completely these days.

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I would agree with Hollywood that the point of a walking dead person who wants to eat your brains is "oh **** run away" not "oh look how similar this is to the pattern of fanaticism".

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