I Am Legend Hero Quotes

In the twenty-first century many people have fantasized about having superpowers of some sort. Bram Stroker made one of the most popular and relevant supervillains of all time. Over the years, Dracula has received an assortment of abilities. The book Dracula has an array of strange occurrences that happen throughout the first four chapters. During this time, Bram is not afraid to show what the Count can and cannot do. Everyone in the village knows of Dracula’s strength, but refuses to help anyone who crosses his path. Count Dracula has extraordinary strength, definitive body features and a rather strange reaction to light of all sorts.

Dracula has a liking of controlling animal like creatures of the wild to absorb his power. This is where he gets the inhuman-like personality that sets him completely apart from the other characters in the story. So to me his figure is definitely quite odd, but it shows his power that he has over everyone. Even though his power is portrayed in a different way than most normal people, he instills a fear in other people from the fact of suck their blood to destroy them and keep him on top. He is considered to of his food chain in the entire novel. Dracula’s character represents everything but well. If you had never read the novel, but heard someone tell you about him, you can figure out that he can be many characteristics such as psychotic, evil, selfish, careless, etc. Yet he may hold accountable of all these characteristics, people are afraid to change his ways because he is only receiving power by destroying others. He doesn’t give a care about anyone but himself and even though it’s the wrong way to handle situations it’s working to an advantage for him because in the end he is always going to come out on top. It’s almost like a win-win situation with him.

Neville didn’t have the average life growing up, he was even born under a palm tree due to the indigenous population having to be out of the towns before sunset. This prevented his mother attending the town’s hospital which led to his mother giving birth to him under a palm tree. (Government, 2014) This was just one of the many rules presented to indigenous people at the time which made their life almost impossible to live. After his mother died, he and his brother moved in with their grandparents. Neville hadn’t gone to school until him and his family moved to Brisbane between the ages of 14 and 15. He had only had a formal education of around a year and had to attend to the only

In the novel's world, Dracula has many mystical powers, some which has been shown only on several occasions and some which he uses for his daily life. Dracula also has a very unique personality, which could tempt women and make them vulnerable. This means, Dracula could dominate every human being individually, not as a group. His powers and personality has something in common. Count Dracula uses his powers and unique abilities as a tool to ridicule religions and God's decisions and as a great threat to the mainstream society.

For example, early in the movie, he chooses to risk his life to go after his dog who runs into an abandoned building where there are sure to be “dark seekers”. Even though it is dangerous, Dr. Neville fights off his survival instinct to keep himself safe, and instead chooses to risk his life by going into a place where there would be a lot of danger. He is scared,

Both in the novel and film, Neville had no option than to commit

In the novel “I am Legend” by Richard Matheson a strange virus has hit the earth and starts to spread quickly. The virus is converting humans into vampires and it is rapidly moving around the country. This virus has taken over everything just, leaving one man alienated named Robert Neville, whose family was also infected and died. Now Neville’s life consists of him locking himself inside his house nightly to protect himself from the vampire’s attacks. He sits inside pouring himself a countless drink and listening to music, while hearing the vampires outside call his name out. The picture I drew is Neville glancing outside of his window during the night, looking at the vampires that are outside his house. and behind Neville’s house is the entire

In this novel Dracula’s interaction with other humans is not great because he never goes out of his castle unless he has an evil plan against someone. Dracula has been described in many ways as a young man or even as an old grumpy man. In this book, Bram Stoker described Dracula by stating, “Within, stood all man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere”. He described a man who looked neat and clean but with no color as in he looked pale. As we get to know more of Dracula’s appearance in this novel he seems more unique and not so much like a human. (Stoker 160). The writer also stated, “His face was a strong-a very strong-aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils.... cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth”. (Stoker 18). Back in the old centuries people really did not know how vampires looked but now in modern days as we hear the word vampires we imagine a man dressed in black with pale skin and sharp teeth. Count Dracula was seen an evil creature who bit people and took their soul.

Their leader is a former news anchor named Matthias. These people still have their intelligence, and they are able to function like humans. They want to kill Neville because they believe that technology and science is evil.

Another theory I would like to apply to Dracula is that he is a psychopath. When I went through the checklist for his personality or character traits, I scored him as a 28, which is above the consensus ranking by doctors of 26 points. In terms of his superficial charm, I scored him with a two. I did this because the book describes him as a clever man, with above average intelligence, as a likable conversationalist; even in the conversation he had with the peasant before killing his wife, he was described as being emotionally calm with little discomfort. For his sense of self-worth I scored him with a one. I picked this answer because while he didn’t brag about his abilities, he often gave off the feeling that he believed that he was better than the people

‘All along, since his coming, been trying his power, slowly but surely; the big child brain of his is working” Bram Stoker also made him the most powerful character in the novel but that does not mean did not have its weaknesses but yet he still gets more powerful as he kills. "When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there." (Chapter 2, pg.28) The purpose of Dracula is to create fear in the reader and to make the novel a bit more intense to the reader. But yet all information Bram Stoker gives us we still do not know everything about Dracula. Yes, we know he is evil but Dracula still is a very mysterious character in the novel. All we know about Dracula is that he is evil and his purpose is to take over the world as he has done for many years and taken the blood of many brave races in his past. "in [his] veins flows the blood of many brave races" (p. 28). Stoker takes a significant of blood and twist the meaning into his own meaning of blood. “The blood is the life!” (171:12)

Thirdly, Neville resorts to violence as a result of self-defence. He barricades himself at night and during the day he ventures to kill vampires to eliminate the threat to his life. Neville solidifies his house to protect his resources and to prevent the attackers from getting him. Being a victim, Neville turns his house into a fortified site. There are reasons underlying his actions that can be accounted to adaptation. Buss and Shackelford state ‘aggression, therefore, can be used to defend against attack. Aggression may be an effective solution to this adaptive problem by preventing one’s resources from being forcibly taken’ (1997

Throughout the novel, Neville- and other members of his community- refer to the monsters created by the plague using metaphors for the black community. The vampires are members of Neville’s all-white community, and their descriptions reflect this whiteness: when describing the vampires surrounding his home, Neville notes: “He could still see them out there, the white-faced men prowling around his house, looking ceaselessly for a way to get in at him,” (10). The vampire men and women are Caucasian, but Neville and his neighbors, while they are still alive, often refer to the monsters as

Neville, pertinently portrayed by A-lister Will Smith, is left miraculously immune to a cancer cure turned world ending virus, and takes upon himself the task of curing the remaining few, who have been rendered zombies by the fateful virus. Indeed, Lawrence opts for nonconformity over traditional definitions of ‘the hero’s journey’, with Neville’s quest commencing three-years post apocalypse, and the plot meandering along a sweeping narrative punctuated by turbulent flashbacks to its punchy conclusion. Inevitably, archaic linear models stumble in their quest for relevance, as Lawrence favours realism and modernity over obsolete archetypes. It is abundantly clear that Neville is no traditional pro-violence man of action, one may even argue that Neville is constructed as a tragic hero with the loss of his family, or anti-hero with his mental struggle, and certainly, the protagonist exhibits certain traits that may allow these thoughts some weight. Though these time-honoured archetypes fall short of defining ultimately, the heterodoxy and rawness of Lawrence’s hero, Neville is a tormented man; a hero whose external battles dwindle in significance when compared with his mental struggle, and whose uniqueness in itself challenges cinematic dogma.

The Vampire in Dracula threatens the very existence of Victorian England. Stoker constructs the vampire as an embodiment of threat by surpassing his Gothic novelist predecessors to bring the threat of the Gothic home to Victorian England (Arata 119). This in turn crosses the boundary between what is foreign and what is national; and dually East and West. Dracula is open to many