During the 1950s, innocent people were killed because of multiple scientific discoveries and many people feared the scientific researches and discoveries. Matheson uses the novella as a vehicle to illustrate the consequences of excessive scientific researches. During 1950s, numerous innocent people were the victim of massive scientific researches:
From 1956 to 1958, U.S. biological warfare experiment was conducted. They released millions of mosquitoes infected with yellow fever over Savannah, Georgia, and Avon Park, Florida.
Savannah, Georgia and Avon Park, Florida were the targets of repeated Army bio-weapons experiments in 1956 and 1957. Army Chemical and Biological researchers released millions of mosquitoes on the two towns in order to …show more content…
Vampires in True Blood have numerous indifferent characteristics compared to Count Dracula in Dracula and vampires in I Am Legend. Vampires in True Blood don’t bite people to drink blood. Due to Japanese scientist’s invention of synthetic blood, Tru Blood, vampires don’t have to bite humans anymore. They don’t hide in a dark, but they live very closely with humans. They are even considered as a citizen of the United States. In addition, there are countless vampires and they formed their own government system. Similar to Stoker and Matheson need their own characteristics of vampires to express something that is oppressed or feared in a society, Alan Ball, the creator and the producer of the series, needed his own characteristics of vampires, such as above, to express something that is currently oppressed in the United States, which is Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights. LGBT have limited rights in the United States. LGBT “are not protected against workplace discrimination of the basis of sexual orientation in the private sector” (Ranker). In addition, “some Catholic churches will not admit children into their school if their parents are gay”
From 1956 to 1958, U.S. biological warfare experiment was conducted. They released millions of mosquitoes infected with yellow fever over Savannah, Georgia, and Avon Park, Florida.
Savannah, Georgia and Avon Park, Florida were the targets of repeated Army bio-weapons experiments in 1956 and 1957. Army Chemical and Biological researchers released millions of mosquitoes on the two towns in order to …show more content…
Vampires in True Blood have numerous indifferent characteristics compared to Count Dracula in Dracula and vampires in I Am Legend. Vampires in True Blood don’t bite people to drink blood. Due to Japanese scientist’s invention of synthetic blood, Tru Blood, vampires don’t have to bite humans anymore. They don’t hide in a dark, but they live very closely with humans. They are even considered as a citizen of the United States. In addition, there are countless vampires and they formed their own government system. Similar to Stoker and Matheson need their own characteristics of vampires to express something that is oppressed or feared in a society, Alan Ball, the creator and the producer of the series, needed his own characteristics of vampires, such as above, to express something that is currently oppressed in the United States, which is Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights. LGBT have limited rights in the United States. LGBT “are not protected against workplace discrimination of the basis of sexual orientation in the private sector” (Ranker). In addition, “some Catholic churches will not admit children into their school if their parents are gay”