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Eren uses a unique titan power to
trigger the rumbling to eradicate all
human life on earth by stomping on
them, sparing only the people of
Paradis. Eren succeeds
exterminating 80% of the global
population before his friends stop
him and eliminate the power of the
titans from the world.
Memory Studies asserts that
history and memory are deeply
interconnected, with memory
acting as a means to bring the past
into the present. This process
continuously reshapes our
perception of historical events,
though the events themselves
remain unchanged. The selective
inclusion or omission of information
in textbooks and propaganda
illustrates how history
constructed.
The first encounter with memory in
AOT was when Erwin, a military
leader with an integral part in the
story, has a flashback of his father,
a history teacher, only retelling
history of the past 100 years inside
the walls of what we later come to
know as Paradis Island. When Erwin
asked his father about the people
outside the walls, his father
confided in him with a theory about
how the king wiped the memories of
the nation before the 100 years
Eldian people have lived in Paradis.
Erwin’s father’s theory was true and
the King magically altered
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everyone’s memories for purely
political reasons, the real world is
not magical but it is clear projection
of using politics of memory to
in manipulate a whole state’s memory
to indoctrinate certain ideas.
Beyond complexities surrounding
hate as an emotion, hate also plays
a crucial role in shaping our
individual and communal identities.
In other words, the target of our
hostility isn't just present; it needs
to be constructed. In this process,
the fabricated adversary becomes
essential to our self-perception.
Hate is the driving force behind
every action in AOT, it is fuelled by
memories, action and bloodlust at
its peak. In Marley, they used Willy
Tybur, an Eldian to fuel hate against
is Paradis Island to unite the world
through hate in order to attack
them. A whole festival was
organized, bringing all world leaders
to Marley for Tybur to “tell them the
truth” and again, begin a new cycle
of hate.
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