Interview with a Vampire (6 points)

    Interview with a Vampire introduces a new age of style of Vampire. The Vampires of past literature and films were often charming but also deadly Vampires. They showed a style of Vampire that suited the times. However, the Vampires Anne Rice writes about set a new style of Vampire. These are Vampires who are romanticized; they are elegant, graceful, and highly intelligent. Beauty is the quality of these Vampires, but Vampires they are. These Vampires do still contain many qualities that distinguish them as such including: they have fangs, they drink blood to survive, they avoid the sunlight because it can harm them, they sleep in coffins, they can move quickly and even perhaps have somewhat hypnotic abilities.   

      Fascinating, though, is that the death of Vampires in the novel is not fully explained for much of it. Unlike most novels with Vampires, Vampires cannot be killed by a stake to the heart. Garlic does nothing, and crucifixes do not harm or even bother them. The Vampires do not shape-shift, which is an often common thing for Vampires to do in film and literature such as Bram Stoker's Dracula where Dracula takes on the form of a wolf. These differences do set a new standard of Vampire. This is a type of Vampire is more crafty and harder to kill.

    There are quite a few interesting concepts in Interview with a Vampire. Something that did particularly stand out in Interview with a Vampire is that a child, Claudia, was turned into a Vampire. Vampire Children are not so common, especially since the focus is often on male characters, or even sometimes women, but never children. The author was gracious enough to basically provide a reason as to why a Vampire child might not be seen, which is that it was forbidden to turn one. This stood out to me because it was something different involving Vampires. Another interesting idea in the novel is that there is no defining origin of which theVampires were created, which sets the story apart of other Vampires novels as we do often see an origin. This was unique because we see a different type of Vampire, one that may have no end-goal and so they just exist or search for an existence to bear their endless lives.  

Overall, Interview with a Vampire is quite a fresh take on the blood-suckers because of a new depiction that Anne Rice created. Although the Vampires are similar to existing characters in film and literature in the need for blood to exist, these new ones become a new fashion of Vampire, a romantic style of Vampire.

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