Interview with the Vampire

"Interview with the Vampire" is one of the best-seller novels by Anne Rice that published in 1976. It is a thrilling novel, which depicts immortal vampires as the central characters. Anne Rice uses the flashback technique in the novel through which novel’s protagonist, the Vampire named Louis tells the story of his past life to a mortal journalist named Daniel during an interview. Louis wants to make the whole world aware of the existence of evil vampires. The story begins in San Francisco where the vampire, Louis describes the chronicle of the last part of his mortal life following 200 years of his immortal life’s experience after his transformation into a vampire by another vampire named Lestat. This novel can be classified as an erotic novel as it intends to stimulate readers sexually. The technique of feeding of Vampires on human beings, Claudia’s relationship with Louis and the play at Theatre des Vampires represents the erotic nature of novel. The representation of vampires’ bite on mortals’ neck is intensely susceptible to sexual encouragement. Louis explains Daniel how Lestat transforms him into a Vampire. In the novel, Louis says, “[Lestat] lay down beside me now on the steps,…

GE2112 Representations of the Gothic Final Essay
 Ko Tong Tong (53056992) 28th November 2015 Topic 1: “Evil is a Point of View” “Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.” (Rice 69) Lestat told Louis this in Interview with the Vampire. It raised a very good concern for people to think. How can evil be defined? For a vampire, blood consumption is a necessity to maintain their life. (Wolf 28)…

This was beneficial for me to reflect on as it was not the only time throughout the interview that I found myself pushing forward before Marria was ready. I think that some of this is related to my more used practice styles, and my old ways of conducting client sessions, because this is what feels comfortable. I am used to conducting brief-therapy in a front-line setting where a main component of my job is crisis management and therefore, things have to happen quickly. I am a problem-solver by…

Two weeks before I had my interview with the Honors College directors my house burned down. I remember the horrible day in which I walked into my home to find it full of smoke. My family and I had spent the whole afternoon together, we went to dinner and talked for a while. Once my dad parked the car in front of the house I remember feeling uneasy, something was not right. I got off the car as fast as possible and headed for the door to find a cloud of smoke hitting me across the face. My dog,…

stamp on that most trendy of cinematic monsters: the vampire. In "Only Lovers Left Alive," Jarmusch finds a way to shake off the recently accumulated residue of too many sparkly, lovesick bloodsuckers by recontextualizing the supernatural creatures as the ultimate hipsters. More than just a killer joke, it's a conceit of undeniable logic — after all, when you've been alive for centuries, you've liked just about everything before it was cool. Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton play Adam and Eve, a…

with his current problems. Client had reported that the issues that he had is getting a little better than before. Even though, this is the second time I had meet with my client. Before starting the counseling session, I had to informs my client regarding the inform consent. Everything that is said during the session will remain in this room and nothing will leave this room less otherwise. I am a mandated reporter if there is an adult abuse or child abuse I have to make a report according…

What happened to the classics? Over the years the world has come to see many different changes of the living dead. In literature one of the major changes that has been seen are the changes in vampires. The classic vampire novel Dracula by Bram Stoker has differences between the vampires when compared to Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice. Now comparing to classics like those to a modern day book series Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber the way vampires are now seen has shifted in a…

Anne Rice’s novel Interview with the Vampire (1976) takes the life of vampire Louis Pointe du Lac as the subject matter. A reporter wants to listen to his story so Louis starts to tell how he became a vampire and what he had been through. Louis mentions that he used to be a plantation master and he suffered a lot after the death of his wife while giving birth to their child in 1791 of Spanish Louisiana. Then he is turned into a vampire by Lestat and hates being a vampire after killing people and…

There are many religious connotations in Only Lovers Left Alive, Twilight, and Interview with a Vampire. For instance, the books and the film have common references to the book of Genesis in the bible. Therefore, God creating man from clay can be compared to vampires creating or turning other humans into vampires. As well as, the temptations of Adam and Eve from eating from the tree of knowledge can be related to the vampires and their temptations to avoid feeding from humans. Therefore, in…

Neil Jordan, in his interview “Life among the Undead: An Interview with Neil Jordan” from Cineaste contributor Declan McGrath (2013), discusses that presenting the female protagonists as monsters, rather than the victims of monsters, in his movie Byzantium creates a varying audience response to the exemplary depiction of vampires. Jordan supports his ideas by explaining the film’s female writer exploring a previously unknown viewpoint, the human emotion subtext in the perfectly cast characters,…