Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

 For some vampires that still cling on to their human beliefs find that feeding was not just to eat but a very intimate experience that gives them life in the most intense way, like intercourse. This acknowledgement is like a connection with how the Native Americans didn’t just kill the buffalo for food but acknowledge its soul and body that gives life to not only to their own kind but also to the Native Americans. Vampires treating blood like an elixir of life but once a human is dead their blood is poison to vampires as if dead pus dead will equal to death. And life is a cycle transferable passing on to one person to another and the vampire are a dead vessel filled with the elixir of life.  With blood being the only thing that moves in a vampires body it can amplified the vampire's five senses to be in best shape ever. The reason why some humans are drawn to the raw power of the vampire is that vampires defies death and sees humans as a formula of elixir of life. This kind of bond is like any human relationships in a psychological way. Examples with blood brothers exchanging blood or the bride and groom exchanging rings or the lost of virginity is by the evidence of blood.

Vampires usually have heightened animal instincts that without the human body’s limited senses are able to show a whole new perspective that is not of human, a sense of freedom (at least during night).  Sine vampires don’t have a heart to tell them that they are alive only their primitive instinct acknowledges and goes directly to the source of life like darkness to light; the stronger the light, the darker the shadow and this could mean as life is connected with death it is a constant give and take situation. The cycle of life and death attract to each other because one cannot exist without the other. Maybe that is why humans are drawn to vampire whose body functions sole purpose is to take life to balance off of being dead.

 A vampire mindset is cleared of humans’ weakness and most of the fears that usually control and influence their former human lives but with that out of the way they have time standing. Blood has also associated with lust and power. But vampires are not perfect predators because they still have their former life personality or moral or fears that could define how each would live just like humans. Vampires are similar to humans in many ways of how any being would react to a new powers and limitations living under different rules of life.

Lestat is a vampire whose former human’s emotions is reflected on his aggressive vampire behavior towards humans unlike Louis who had a more pleasant lifestyle and still sympathizes with the humans and how precious their lives are. Louis feeds mostly on animals and avoids any unnecessary bloodshed that relates to humans.  Lestat is ignorant of how to obtain money because of the lack of his human education. Where Louis’ high-class education taught him the art of finance and investor and manager making him a very self-sufficient vampire unlike his unintelligent mentor. Louis still had his wits that help him understand why his mentor picks young men simply because they represent the prime of Life, when maximum possibility of life.

                                                                      mlee Lit. Horror, fantasy, sci-fi class