The Summary of the Idle Proletariat: Dawn of the Dead, Consumer Ideology, and the Loss of Productive Labor

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The summary of The Idle Proletariat: Dawn of the Dead, Consumer Ideology, and the Loss of Productive Labor Dawn of the Dead tells a story that many zombies roam in a country. Several survivors found a safe shopping mall with unlimited basic supplies. To audience, they focus on the relationship between zombies and consumerism. Bishop thought zombies are not only the monster, but also a catalyst to show the problem we are facing: pervasive consumerism. Survivors in Dawn lose their original social identity. The feckless individual living in Romero’s mall ultimately loses which makes them essentially “human”, and they regress to a more primitive, animal state. (Hegel 235) The survivors can be satisfied by all kinds of needs in shopping mall, so that they need to own other than produce. These survivors have no goals and no challenges. To them, happiness is more important than survive and they are isolated from each other. Stephen lives in the present, Peter is living in past, while Fran is living for the future. Because the system of labor, production is changing completely, their goal’s to recreate the society is impossible. Three characters are facing another invasion, which is a marauding army of militia, and bikers descend. However, they focus on money and jewelry-the things with no real value in the zombie economy. Stephen died in this fight and rises again as a zombie. Unfortunately, he remembered route to get into the mall and leads the ghouls to attack them. In the end, the two survivors go into the helicopter and have a chance to

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