Interview with the Vampire
McKenna Clary
Interview with the Vampire In the novel, ‘Interview with the Vampire’, by Anne Rice, it starts with a young man interviewing a vampire, and the vampire related him the whole story of his life, how he became a vampire, his trilling adventures and his complex relationship with both the mortals and the immortals. The story goes back in time to have the reader fully understand the life of Louis Anne Rice did a pretty superior job with the writing and the detailed descriptions. How she composed the novel and how she interprets all the emotions; physically and mentally. You get to understand how Louis transformed from a human to a vampire as if you were there and apart of it all. You get to see different sides of the transformation. There is rage, love, power, hatred, suffering, pain and terror all involved in the novel. Rice’s imaginary vampire world questions God. The question is there...are vampires real? Because of all that they are brought up to be, vampires will always be humanistic to us. Because of what we know and have learned about vampires, Louis brings our imagination to a whole new level. We were brought up in this world to believe that once we die, we die. Our heart stops and we are forever dead. There is no in between. We don’t live in a world were the dead walk among us. Although identities for vampires particularly in this novel are merged, what is interesting is the way the boundary between damnation and salvation is drawn. Louis is pre-occupied with his spiritual existence. He goes off to seek answers to his existence and how to put up with the new life he now has. To accept his new eternal life, Louis had to do some changing. One particular view that Louis could not accept is the eating style. In the novel, Louis’ appetite is the blood of sewer rats, not human blood. Trying to figure out how to cope with the vampire ways, Louis leaves New Orleans to go to Europe where he hears there is a theatre where vampires play humans
Interview with the Vampire In the novel, ‘Interview with the Vampire’, by Anne Rice, it starts with a young man interviewing a vampire, and the vampire related him the whole story of his life, how he became a vampire, his trilling adventures and his complex relationship with both the mortals and the immortals. The story goes back in time to have the reader fully understand the life of Louis Anne Rice did a pretty superior job with the writing and the detailed descriptions. How she composed the novel and how she interprets all the emotions; physically and mentally. You get to understand how Louis transformed from a human to a vampire as if you were there and apart of it all. You get to see different sides of the transformation. There is rage, love, power, hatred, suffering, pain and terror all involved in the novel. Rice’s imaginary vampire world questions God. The question is there...are vampires real? Because of all that they are brought up to be, vampires will always be humanistic to us. Because of what we know and have learned about vampires, Louis brings our imagination to a whole new level. We were brought up in this world to believe that once we die, we die. Our heart stops and we are forever dead. There is no in between. We don’t live in a world were the dead walk among us. Although identities for vampires particularly in this novel are merged, what is interesting is the way the boundary between damnation and salvation is drawn. Louis is pre-occupied with his spiritual existence. He goes off to seek answers to his existence and how to put up with the new life he now has. To accept his new eternal life, Louis had to do some changing. One particular view that Louis could not accept is the eating style. In the novel, Louis’ appetite is the blood of sewer rats, not human blood. Trying to figure out how to cope with the vampire ways, Louis leaves New Orleans to go to Europe where he hears there is a theatre where vampires play humans