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Theories
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Theories
Silent Hill is a game with a multithreaded plot full of twists and turns which will amaze and suprise even the most predicting of you players. It makes some events that take place in the game unclear. That is exactly what this section is for. I am intent on showcasing you my own theories regarding: the plot, characters, monsters and locations we see in the game. Notice: The theories confided within this section are my own hypothesises and you can agree with them or disprove them.
As you all know the plot in Silent Hill concerns a certain cult called The Order which wants to summon an ancient god named Samael. He is supposed to bring salvation to the world What would exactly be that salvation? I think the salvation was never to happen and the cults vision was only supposed to serve as a bait to attract new followers. As we all know the mother of god was supposed to be Alessa, the daughter of Dahlia Gillespie, one of the most important personalities in The Order. I don't know how Samael found itself in her. The fact that we don't know Alessa's father, however, does puzzle me greatly however. We have no knowledge of who he was so perhaps it was him from whom Alessa had inherited her paranormal abilities. The events taking place in Silent Hill after Harry and Cheryl's arrival is a result of another connection of two parts of Alessa's threadbare soul(the other part is Cheryl). The world we see upon these happenings is destroyed, as if burned by numerous fires, stained in blood and rust. This image that Harry sees upon his arrival to the troubled town of Silent Hill depicts the suffering of Alessa during the pas seven years that preceed the events taking place in the game. Why did Alessa split her soul and prevent Samael's birth? Because she never really wanted to let this happen. In various parts of town we find wheel-chairs scattered about the worn out streets and buildings of Silent Hill, they symbolise suffering and crippleness Dahlia has suffered from when the fire broke out that she on her own started in order to prevent the birth of Samael. Let's take the monsters for instance. We have dogs,nurses doctors and cockroaches. They are a material expression of her worst fears and anxieties. The dogs bite, cockroaches are repulsive whilst the doctors and nurses are rude and indiffirent to human suffering(or so she found them to be). The most interesting character in the game is Lisa Garland, a nurse addicted to a drug called White Claudia. It was that woman who took care of Alessa for a few years. At the end of the game we find out she isn't human. I believe she was killed by Kaufmann when she wanted to leave The Order. Why did Kaufmann oppose Dahlia? I think he was tempted and deceived by the sweet vision of a paradise which he believed to be true and when he saw how he looked he felt deceived. I think the locations we explore during the game have a strong connection to Alessa. They are all places Alessa liked to visit when she was still a happy little girl or where she was in the near past. And so respectively we have: a school which she attended, the Midwich Elementary School, her mother's shop Antique Green Lion, the Balkan Church, the Town Center, the hospital where she was treated after the fire or even the amusement park, the symbol of her long since past happiness in contrast to the gloom of maturity, which she probabbly visited often when she was a little younger.
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