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
Hand, foot, and mouth are parts of human body have the highest change to get contagious infection. There are many viruses but Enterovirus groups, (most common is the coxsackie virus) is the main factor. These viruses can spread through direct contact from person to person especially with those have bad habits such as: unusually washed hands or surfaces contaminated with feces. An infected person’s saliva, stool, or respiratory secretions can transmit the infection.
The image the vampire is being used in horror movies and novels to portray the fear of disease and infection. For example, in the novel I Am Legend, Richard Matheson states: “The worry had started a few hours before, while Ruth was sleeping. Now, he couldn't rid himself of the fear. No matter how he reasoned, it didn’t help” (126). This quote demonstrates the fear that Robert Neville, the main character, was experiencing. He was afraid that Ruth, the girl he brought home, is infected. The quote shows the fear of losing a companion from Neville while illustrating the general theme which is the horror of contagion. Furthermore, Matheson also states: “He was surrounded now by people, hundreds of them,
Neville has created a restricted space that fights and defends to keep it for himself. He is an alone white man who tries to survive in an apocalyptic world in which he must learn to adapt himself by controlling the environment surrounding him imposing his authority and establishing his dominance. It is vampire what he must confront and upon whom he must establish his control, they metaphorically are the black population. Neville estimates his own state of humanity against the contaminated monsters with blood as the factor that indicates the difference between the identities of both beings. Neville takes his own blood as the standard to identify what is pure and as a consequence what is human. At some point in the novel, he finds Ruth, a woman of whom he thinks to be a normal human because she can walk in daylight. Although he finally achieves to take her into his house he still does not trust her, being afraid of the fact that Ruth could be infected by the bacillus. After such belief, Neville insists on testing her, first by shoving a plate with crushed garlic on it under her nose, and later by asking her for a sample of blood.
He kills the vampires that surround his house because they are dangerous, even though his house protects him. He kills off the sub-vampires in their homes because they are better off dead and he is sparing them of their fate. Neville even kills his wife when she comes back as a vampire from her grave. He murders her by stabbing a cross into her heart as an act of mercy, out of necessity. Interestingly, when he finds the infected dog, he does everything in his power to keep him alive. At this point, he is so desperate for companionship that he becomes obsessed with the dog. He also keeps Ben Cortman alive, even though Cortman constantly yells at him and aggravates him. This is likely because he is the only person he has left from the past world. Neville commits assisted suicide when he realizes there are no normal humans left on Earth, as he has become the Other. He looks at "the new people of the earth... [and] he knew he did not belong to them." They are afraid of him; he has become a "terrible scourge even worse than the disease they had come to live with" (95) and "an anathema and black terror to be destroyed"
In the article, Virus killing Ontario lambs has troubling echoes of Zika, written by Jennifer Yang for The Star, we learn that there is an outbreak of Cache-Valley virus in Canada. The Cache-Valley virus has existed in Canada for a long period of time but new evidence shows that the virus could evolve into something similar to the Zika virus and effect humans too.
The French novelist, Jules Verne stated; “solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.” Here, Verne notes that being confined to isolation is an experience that humans are incapable of performing. Humans are social creatures, who need company and interactions with others. In Richard Matheson’s dystopian fiction, I Am Legend, Robert Neville's isolation is the result of a pandemic. In I Am Legend, Robert Neville, the sole survivor of a vampiric plague, is left alone. Neville is forced to pursue his life and live among the infected. He longs to find a cure or a companion to fill the emptiness. But, the vampires pose a constant obstacle alongside his depression and alcoholism. He obtains book carries out research set with the goal of finding a cure for the virus. Neville finds more
Neville wakes up everyday and fights off vampires if he needs to, and finds tools to try and keep them away from his house. In the book, Neville takes his time to make sure his house is surrounded by garlic and things that the vampires don’t like, and ,made sure this was up everyday to ensure his safety. Regardless of being the last man standing after a plague that took his family, wife and friends, he still managed to fight to keep himself alive. Another example of determination in Neville is him focusing on trying to find out where the plague exactly originates from , how it is spread, and what can he possibly do to try and get close to curing the humans that are infected with the Vampiris germ, the germ that turns humans to vampires. He takes the vampires to try and experiment on them , and bombards himself with medical books to read until he comes up with a theory that adequately describes where the plague originates from, how it spreads, and if there’s any hope for the
He suspects her of being infected but brings her to his home anyways. Ruth is curious about what Neville knows about the virus. When Neville tells her what he knows about it, Ruth is noticeably grossed out to which Neville replies, “One gets used to these things...One has to” (146). Neville has become numb to all the blood and gore of his daily life. He is determined to understand the virus so he is used to seeing disturbing things, Neville has accepted it as something that must be done. In a survival situation, one has to come to terms with their situation and adapt accordingly, like Neville turning to science for answers despite not being a scientist. Later when Neville is talking to Ruth about killing vampires he says, “Only to...to survive” (166). He never killed a vampire for joy-- but purely to stay alive. Throughout Matheson’s novel Neville goes through many changes. He adapts to his environment, learning new things about the virus and killing off vampires. Having to survive in vampire ridden world changes Neville forever. At the end of the novel Neville says, “I am Legend”
I recently read an article written in The NEWYORKER called The Deadliest Virus by Michael Specter. The article talked about the Avian Flu virus, also known as “bird flu”. In the article, Specter interviewed many people, but the most important person, in my opinion, is a virologist who conducted research on the Avian Flu, Ron Fouchier. This article raised many ethical questions. The questions are as followed: Should research be conducted on this virus? Does Fouchier’s research pose a threat? Does the risk of the work outweigh the benefits of the research?
Neville understands that these vampires are obsessive about their basic needs as the narrator states, “their need was their only motivation” (Matheson 11). In this regard, Neville is similar to his adversaries as he, too, is obsessed with his needs as a human, specifically for companionship and intimacy. This idea is demonstrated in the beginning of the novel as he is about to slay a sleeping vampire and the author observes, “…but for some affliction he didn’t understand, these people were the same as he” (Matheson 28). Much like Count Dracula, these vampires are driven mad by their thirst and need for blood; however, in Neville’s case, this need can also be characterized by his desire for companionship. In this
Nipah virus, Arena Virus and Francisella tularensis are bioterrorism agents. They work in various ways to harm the host. Francisella tularenis is considered a Tier 1 bioterrorism agent and Nipah virus is an overlap select agent that affects humans and agriculture both. They have been harmful in the past. Though, Nipah virus is a newer virus than the other two. This review will focus on their emergence, pathogenicity and symptoms of the diseases they cause.
Sherin Cheriyan, majoring in Biology and on the Physician Assistant Track at Seton Hall University is a member of the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Association, Class of 2019. A resident of Newington, Connecticut, she hopes to address racial stereotypes, gender discrimination, celebrate diversity, and help underprivileged communities through Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship programs. The Magnum Opus she intends to publish is a program centered on younger children to bring awareness to stereotypes in society and the psychological effects of stereotypes on the victims of racism. The program will include academic workshops, including tests and role play to bring awareness to how conscious and unconscious racism can affect a person and their
Smallpox is a highly contagious infectious disease. The type of microbe for smallpox is the Variola virus. Smallpox is caused by either the Variola major or the Variola Minor. This virus is spread by direct contact. The disease was likely to be in human populations about 10,000 BC. An epidemic broke out in 1519 with the Aztecs and the Conquistadors in Tenochtitlan Mexico. The epidemic killed a total of twenty five percent of the Aztecs population leaving it easy for Cortes and the conquistadors to take over the desired
In the novella I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, Robert is the last human on Earth that has been plagued by a disease that turns humans into vampires. This infection has ended with Neville alone in a house to fend and survive, in an undisclosed area of Los Angeles. It is mentioned several times through the novella that bombs could have caused the mutation of a disease and constant sandstorms attribute to the spreading of the infection throughout the areas of Los Angeles. In order to fend off the blood sucking vampires, Neville sets up perimeters of garlic, and mirrors to repel the vampires getting closer to his house. Additionally, Neville installs lights and boards his windows so the vamps can’t get in without a fight. All of his
For my research paper, I will be cover the situation of the Zeus virus which was a Trojan horse virus that infected window computers. This virus was used to steal login credentials which then allow them to use money mules to smuggle money overseas. More than 1,000,000 users were affecting by this and large company like Amazon, Oracle, Bank of America, and Cisco were victims. I found this to be interesting because of the way they were able to create value from being