Interview with a Vampire

So everything I know about a vampire can be summed up in How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster, in the chapter “Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires.” Which is a very interesting book showing different ways to view things and in context of the time, what things could mean, and made me realize everything in a book has meaning and purpose. So what I learned is that every vampire is old, seductive, and dangerous a vampire usually feeds on innocent virgins making them the typical bad guy, but in Interview With the Vampire, the vampire, Louis, is forced to be a vampire and attempts to refrain from feeding on humans, while Lestat feeds on the what he was and wants to be out of spite and malice.

It's pretty much about a vampire recounting his looong life to a scared shitless boy. Of course he's scared shitless because he's in the same room as a monster that could kill him in less than a second. Which is another thing that is so attractive about vampires is that they hold all this god-like power and are able to restrain and control it quite well. You could die at any moment in their presence, because techniclly any human is potential food, it's up to their benevolence whether you live or die. They are the opposite of god, but just as powerful and in a physical form from our perspective.

Vampires also have this other worldliness. Like they know more than the average human. They have already experienced something that no human has ever experienced, which is death. They hold a sort of mystery that we can never comprehend, death has intrigued us ever since we have been conscious of it. It is the eternal mystery of what happens after and during death that intrigues us so very much. The vampires have already experienced this, and are freed by it allowing them to do whatever they want, allowing them to be fully self aware. They also exist in their physical state that they died in. Which can be a bad thing especially if a vampire is stuck in physical state that hinders their mental ability to develop, such as in Claudia's case.