Isolation and Revenge in FNaF

In the FNaF (Five Nights at Freddy’s) story, there are many themes present, including isolation.  The most obvious example of this is the security guard who has to work alone at night with the animatronics in the building.  However, the place where I find this theme to be most important is with the children who are trapped inside the suits.  The children who have been murdered and their souls then trapped inside these animatronics are forced to stay in the place where they were killed.  In the first game, and even the few following, we don’t know if they can communicate with each other at all.  This essentially puts them in their version of hell where they’re constantly reminded of their short life.  This isolation then causes the children to essentially go insane and dream of the revenge they could enact on their killer.  After being trapped for so long, they start to take their anger out on any person who comes into the pizzeria.  The combination of solitude and thoughts of revenge causes the events of Pizza Simulator.  After being trapped with no opportunity to get revenge for so long, they are given an opportunity by Henry to both be freed from their hell and take their killer with them.  After one week of the fake restaurant being open, Henry causes a fire to destroy all of the animatronics, including Afton.  Obviously, this doesn’t work because there are still games that take place after this, so the murdered children are probably still trapped and trying to get revenge on Afton.  Hopefully, this will get resolved, but I don’t see it happening any time soon.

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