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English 115
Element Web
AMC’s popular TV series, The Walking Dead, is both spooky on TV and online. Upon entering The Walking Dead’s website, one immediately encounters a dark, somber surface. There is nothing happy about the website but rather it is depressing and intimidating. The title of the show, The Walking Dead, actually refers to the survivors of the zombie apocalypse rather than the zombies themselves. This is portrayed on the website through the images of “The Governor”, who is a tyrannical leader of a town full of survivors, and Rick, who is widely-known as the show’s protagonist and leader of the small group of characters which viewers of the show are very familiar with. How do images of The Governor and Rick exemplify that the survivors are actually the walking dead? In the image of Rick and The Governor, both characters show signs of fatigue, ...