Dance Macabre by Stephen King - 829 Words

Stephen King’s fore note to Danse Macabre, he suggested that zombies act as fast-moving terrorists. â€Å"By 2004, only three years downriver from 9/11, rampant consumerism was the last thing on our minds. What haunted our nightmares was the idea of suicide bombers driven by an unforgiving (and unthinking, most of us believed) ideology and religious fervor. You could beat ’em , burn ’em , but they’d just keep coming, the news reports assured us.† (King 40) Here Stephen King says that terrorists are relentless killers. What Stephen King is not mentioning, is that terrorists are not necessarily fast moving and neither are all zombies. Stephen King is generalizing zombies and terrorists which, makes his argument weaker than it appears. There are many myths about zombies in literature and movies that do not fit the characteristics in which King is discusses. Some other examples of zombies, such as the Resident Evil films, portray zombies in a different way. In Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart he describes a man with a disfigurement that gives us insight to the true nature of the fear created by zombies. The Umbrella Corporation operates a top-secret research facility named The Hive. The facility is located deep beneath the fictional city of Raccoon City. The Hive has been sealed by The Red Queen (the Artificial Intelligence that controls the Hive) due to the release of the T-Virus into the facility. It was intentionally released during the theft of the T-virus. The zombiesShow MoreRelatedThe Road Through The Wall By Shirley Jackson1897 Words   |  8 PagesEnglish and speech, she married Stanley Hyman. The first of her four children, Laurence, was born in 1942 which is the same time she began to have her stories published. Two years later in 1944, she was chosen for Best American Short Stories for â€Å"Come Dance with Me in Ireland.† A year after her husband acquired a teaching job at Bennington College and they moved to North Benningtown, Vermont, where she continued to write and raise her children. Jackson became a substitute teacher of a creative writingRead MoreEssay Witchcraft Portrayed in Films6180 Words   |  25 Pageslarge rim covers her untidy hair. She concentrates on her cauldron, in which some unwholesome-looking liquid is boiling and sending off coloured fume into the air. In the background, one can glimpse a row of jars and pots, each filled with exotic and macabre ingredients. Her old broom, made not for sweeping but for flight stands in a corner, and she is watched by the glowing and unmoving eyes of a black cat that sits calmly atop the table. Now she ta kes one of the jars with her long crooked fingers, andRead MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 PagesE SSAYS ON TWENTIETH-C ENTURY H ISTORY In the series Critical Perspectives on the Past, edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig Also in this series: Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes, eds., Oral History and Public Memories Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life Lisa M. Fine, The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. Van Gosse and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture