What is the theme of Pet Sematary?

Answer 1

"Pet Sematary" plays out as a cautionary tale about the perils of not coming to terms with death and loss in a healthy way. For all of the main character's clinical high-mindedness about the process of death (he is a left-brained medical doctor, after all), he does something drastic following a troubling loss of life in his family that proves that he is no better at coping with death than the wife who he has to "talk down" from her emotional spells whenever she is confronted with the subject. Their particular methodologies when dealing with mortality are totally different, but where her blight is hysteria, his blight is arrogance. Other characters crop up in the story to highlight just how differently everyone handles death, and the story asks for your judgment on their techniques. Almost no one in the novel knows how to deal with it in any sort of dignified, graceful way. How could they have handled this bleak reality better? When emotions run high, would you do something similar if you were in their shoes?

Answer 2

The theme of "Pet Sematary" revolves around the consequences of tampering with the natural order of life and death. It explores grief, loss, and the human desire to defy mortality, ultimately illustrating the disturbing outcomes of trying to cheat death.

Answer 3

The theme of Pet Sematary is never let death of life come into your hands.

Answer 4

To scare the witts out of people