The episode, “Surprised” from the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer has allowed me to see that people, just like the vampires, in the real world have some sort of humanity left in them. No matter how evil or horrible they may seem and no matter how their actions may prevail that, they still have some humanity left. This show has proved that humanity can be suppressed by higher up authority figures and power. It has demonstrated that even the evil vampires under the rule of a monster, or the military officers under the rule of authority figures, have emotions and humanity it is just suppressed. The military officers, like the vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, are just trying to obey orders and fulfill their desires to serve. The vampire were trying to fulfill the orders and desires to take over the world, while the military officers who were overseeing the prisons were just trying to fulfill the desires and orders to serve their country and make it a safer place. They both were under situational pressures, which affected the way they acted. Both, the vampires and military officers were under the spell of the power and authority that they had for a very short time. This power and authority caused them to suppress their humanity and act out in ways they never thought they would act. They ended up hurting others and even themselves. The close comparisons between the show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the real world is scary and the creator of the show really wanted the world to think twice about the awful things that occurred at these prisons.
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