Week 2 - Interview with a Vampire (5)

 My initial thoughts after reading An Interview with a Vampire, is how interesting it was to see Louis battle with his inner “moral compass” throughout the book and the few times he went against his ethics out of sheer desperation considering his permanent hell having to stay a vampire and never being able to return to his mortal human self. One parallel I drew between this story and Frankenstein, is comparing the character of Frankenstein to Louis. They both fight an endless “hell” every second of every day, this being the fact that they realize they simply aren’t like the other people around them and have no redeemable courses of action to take to achieve any sense of societal acceptance and or forgiveness. I saw this when in the beginning, Louis greatly struggled with the act of killing other humans for blood that he so desperately needed in order to survive or feel any sense of peace. I could tell he grappled with this dilemma greatly, and when he finally gave into his temptations by feeding on Claudia, I as a reader could feel a certain shift in Louis’s attitude, not in the sense that he was suddenly okay with the actions he as a vampire had to take, but more of a realization and acceptance of knowing that in order to continue to live his life in his current state as a vampire, he was simply going to have to get comfortable with the fact that he would have to commit unimaginable and horrid acts. Another parallel I drew between the two main characters is the endless pursuit for acceptance and companionship. Frankenstein was scorned and rejected from the moment he entered the world, and Louis having been brought into the world of being a vampire by Lestat, continually sought to find an answer in the form of someone who he felt he could relate to and one that would understand the tribulations of being a vampire. Sadly, Louis never truly achieved this and his tragic tale ends by him once again going against his moral compass he once possessed by biting and thus turning the boy he was being interviewed by into a vampire, thus bringing the story completely around in one large and spanning circle. 

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