White Walkers of Westeros (Potential Spoilers)

In the first writing assignment I discussed the White Walkers seen in George R.R. Martins' Song of Ice and Fire series as well as HBO's Game of Thrones. These creatures are a somewhat more complex and driven version of the classic zombie. They exist as an undead race who aim to remove the living and all that they stand for from the country of Westeros.

I like what Cohen says about monsters being considered as such to justify the conquering or destruction of a people or belief - thesis four. As the situation rests in Westeros, the White Walkers (monsters from a human view) are poised to conquer the lands of the living by their steady campaign Southward. Obviously these two factions do not see eye to eye because of differences in societal structure and core beliefs (although we don't know much about their internal structure, White Walkers are assumed to be Godless brutes) and so naturally both parties view the other as a monstrous entity. This viewpoint allows for a conveniently justified war to rage between the two when ever possible and at the time within the series is heating up once again. Humans despise the White Walkers and attempt to empress humanity upon the land. In doing so, they attempt to rid themselves of the heathen White Walkers, and so they are destroyed or pushed back to the furthest reaches of the North (I cannot recall how the White Walkers originally were addressed and defeated in ancient lore). So long as such differences exist between the living and the undead, there will be no peace. This seems to parallel perfectly with historical differences in nationality, belief, and conflict in general. As is brought up by Cohen, by making Native Americans out to be something other than Man, the issue as a whole shifts from the removal of a people from their native land, to the cleansing of the land of this subhuman creature.