tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7764067184328077359.post7872571236509794486..comments2010-12-27T19:45:06.472-08:00Comments on English 263: Force of HabitSara Nesbitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11154006883598454758noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7764067184328077359.post-57286288701096281722010-11-05T20:21:31.213-07:002010-11-05T20:21:31.213-07:00Sara, I agree wholeheartedly with your post. I th...Sara, I agree wholeheartedly with your post. I think you touch on one of the hallmark methods in which Matheson forces us as readers to reevaluate who is truly the victim in this novel. You aptly point out that, “Neville never realized how much alike him and the vampires were.” Throughout the novel we are given pointed examples of their similarities, and only in the last sentence do we see what has happened as the story has played out over the 3 years passed in the novel. Neville continues through sheer habit and routine, as he has placed more distance between himself and his humanity, to kill scores of vampires. This is further compounded by the emotional separation which has served to render him a cold and scientific killer. In his later stages, before Ruth, he is seemingly unable to feel passion or terror. Instead choosing to live his life through the comfort of monotony, never again willing to bare his emotions to the world which has abandoned him. A truly lonely and cruel existence. <br />However, in the end he becomes legend. An infamous killer who indiscriminately kills for reasons seemingly as pure and noble as reestablishing humans as the dominant, while in fact he may only be killing as a comfort for his own emotional state. Dracula was feared and turned to legend by his native villagers much the same happens to Neville, he soon becomes the stuff of myth and is loathed by the new powers as man too dangerous to live.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02734199153487558659noreply@blogger.com