Theme Of Discrimination In I Am Legend

This conception of the foreigner as being a danger is present in I Am Legend, in which the discrimination of the end of the nineteenth century towards the Jews in England appreciated in Dracula, shifts into racism towards the black Americans in the twentieth century in Matheson's novel, thanks to the impact of slavery and the prejudices that came with it. From the very beginning, the race of the protagonist is clearly defined as Caucasian, Matheson describes him as “a tall man, thirty six, born of English German stock, his features undistinguished except for the long, determined mouth and the bright blue of his eyes” (3); although there are not clear race descriptions of the vampires given by the author, in Neville's mind they are related