White Zombie uses body limitations, such as Charles Beaumont’s lack of speech, to also express fears. The zombies in the film are mute and unable to express themselves once they have been transformed. Beaumont was unable to speak after he became a zombie and could not try to tell anyone about his situation. This is a metaphor for how people during the Great Depression felt about their circumstances. Most experienced poverty at the time, but had no way to speak out against everything they were going through. Everyone else at the time was having the same issues and no one was in a position to be able to help. People were forced to suffer through the 1930s in silence as the collapsed economy took everything away from
