Week Two: Vampire: Love and Pain

In interview with the vampire the glorified story of the powers and immortality of the traditional vampire are reversed, and we realize that things aren’t as great as they seem to an outsider looking in. It is filled with sorrow and agony of events that have changed the protagonist vampire’s point of view, also with regret and discuss toward everything about being a vampire. Lastly it deals with a love that could never be. It makes us realize the other points of view that come with a curse of being immortal and having to depend on killing innocent people to survive. At first we only look at things over with a glimpse of what it really is to be a vampire, mostly because we are blinded by what we think would be epic and glorious. Immortality, who wouldn’t want to live forever? And see the world change and experience many things we couldn’t in one lifetime. But we don’t consider the cons because the pros seem so great. Until much like the protagonist Louis we realize the horrors and tribulations that he has gone through because of his curse of being a vampire. He feeds/kills humans and then falls in love with someone who he could never be with. The work seems to portray that we should be content with what we are given and appreciate what we have, because other things may seem incredible looking at it from the advantages we gain but not considering the disadvantages we may face. The author also seems to emphasize that the positives don’t outweigh the negatives.