동서양의 피포위 공포 연구 = A Study of Western and Eastern Siege Mentalities: Walking Dead and Attack on Titan

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Monsters signify the underlying fears of their ages. Zombies and monstrous titans are felicitous symbols of the fear we currently face. Zombies lumbering around for human flesh without any social or biological reasons stir up our fear in a survivalist world. Titans in Attack on Titan like zombies devour humans for indecipherable causes. Both of them lay siege to human beings inside buildings or walls, and drive them insane consuming their flesh. Remaining human survivors under siege suffer from extreme fear of being surrounded and consumed by enemies. This mindset is siege mentality which explains how a nation or an individual reacts to a hostile situation of real or imaginary isolation. The soaring popularity of zombies and titans attests to the siege mentality we have in our survival-of-fitness world. This paper aims to analyze this mentality or fear in Walking Dead and Attack on Titan from dual perspectives of “fear of others” and totalitarian nation, and from different imperial experiences of the United States and Japan which have shaped their attitudes toward others and controllership of the nations against their respective citizens.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• I. 서론
• II. 『워킹 데드』
• III. 『진격의 거인』
• IV. 결론
• Works Cited
• Abstract