Survival In 'Lost'

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To create dramatic meaning in television, themes and issues in society are explored to educate and entertain the audience. Written and produced by J.J Abrams, ‘Lost,’ is an adventurous, action-thriller that involves a plane crash that had been travelling from Sydney to L.A. When sudden turbulence occurred, eventually causing the plane to crash into a tropical island in the Pacific Ocean, 1000 miles off course. 48 survivors had experienced this crash and still remain on the remote island including surgeon Jack Shepherd (Matthew Ford), and escaped fugitive, Kate Austen (Evangeline Lily). These two characters become the protagonist of this television series. They are accompanied by former Republican Guard Sayid (Naveen Andrews), Conman Sawyer …show more content…
In ‘Lost’ there was clear evidence of the theme survival, particularly in Pilot Part 1 (episode 1), when Jin-Soo said to his wife, Sun, “Don’t worry about the others, we need to stay together.” This signifies that Jin-Soo, along with some survivors, is selfish and felt that they must only provide support for themselves. Another key event, occurred in White Rabbit (episode 5), that demonstrates the theme of survival is when no water could be found, and Jack was coincidentally was in search of his father deep in the forest. Locke had joined him, and they both find a cave filled with a spring of fresh water. The passengers were struggling to find hope when there is no water to be found. In order to survive, the group begins to experience conflict, instead of cooperating and Jack, displaying that he was selfless and is the potential leader, explains to them, to work together instead of fighting. Jack said, “Every man for himself is not going to work. It’s time to start organizing, we need to figure out how we are going to survive.” Trust was also a key aspect when they had to survive, by relying on each other’s …show more content…
It was shown that many of them were building strong trusting relationships amongst each other. It was illustrated specifically in Walkabout (episode 4) when Michael asks Sun to look after his son because he was going boar hunting. This meant that Michael was gaining trust for Sun and opened up to her. Another event occurred in Tabula Rasa (Episode 3), when Kate, Sayid, Sawyer, Boone and Charlie, go to higher ground to get a signal from the transciever. Sawyer kills a polar bear with his gun and they all interrogated Sawyer and debate whether they should trust him. This moment was difficult for these survivors as they had to decide whether to trust Sawyer, as they are quite sceptical of his actions. The last example of trust was also in the same episode when Jack finds out about Kate’s devious past and he seems to convey acceptance towards Kate. He believes that since they are on the remote island, it doesn’t matter about the past, “I don’t want to know. It doesn’t matter Kate who we were, what we did before this before the crash, three days ago, we all died. We should all be able to start over.” An addition to trust, the theme heroism, is another quality that gives the survivors’ the ability to