Interview with the Vampire AGAIN

Interview with the Vampire
By: Anne Rice
Terri Thampan 804

 So like, I'm back to reading this book! Yay me! Now that I've begun rereading it (I've started off a bit before the part where I left off before so I could get back into the book)I started to realize things I didn't realize before. During my many adventures on youtube, I learned that the very idea of what a vampire does is considered sexual and dark. Apparently one of the first vampires pretty much turned away from God and the church because his wife committed suicide and they couldn't bury her there because she died by suicide or something like that. The person also explained about how sexual the very concept of elongating fangs piercing flesh and bodily liquids being swapped was a very sexual thing. The person also recommended the Anne Rice series and so, knowing that I had enjoyed it before (before the gore-ishness got to me, I can probably cope now) I decided to read it again. Well, I wasn't so naive as I was before.
   As I started reading the book, I suddenly got a taste of how erotic, as the back cover would say, the book is. After reading "Pride and Prejudice" I found the book much easier to read and more fun to enjoy, as it had a very beautiful writing style that I hope one day to also obtain. Though, reading this one line made me want to burst out laughing, as it was describing Lestat drinking the blood from a human boy. Now, it's not that the scene is funny, but it was written in such an erotic way, I being a teenager was helpless from the giggles. Showing the line to my fellows/classmates, I got pretty, let's say "Loud", responses. Most of them took the whole sentence the wrong way and completely thought I was reading... porn.
  Well, despite my embarrassment, it really brings up a valid point. Anne Rice had a very good reason to write the drinking of blood in such an erotic way. It was to show how intimate it was to take the blood of another. It brought up how intimate vampires as creatures are. They live off the very liquid life essence of a human. In taking the human's blood, or even an animal's blood, they sort of become one with that creature, they take that creature into themselves, and it's as if that creature becomes a part of them. It reminds me of the anime/manga Bleach where when a hollow tries to become stronger, it has to eat other souls and hollows to survive, to take that Hollow's power and make it their own by eating it and making it become a part of itself.
   Though with a hollow, all they have to do in their time is kill or be killed. They can't really do anything besides that for entertainment and it makes me wonder what would happen if a hollow finally killed and absorbed the last remaining hollow by itself. What would it do then? There would be nothing left to fight, and then would it die without a reason for existence? Though, it probably wouldn't happen, as hollows are made from spirits of humans who stay too long in the human world or something like that, Bleach got very confusing after a while and wasn't truly planned out, making many of the points made earlier in the show not make sense as new info keeps popping up. But the same sort of applies to vampires. They live off seducing, as most of the time they do seduce their victims, humans, and getting intimate with them before stealing the life out of the human. One there are no more humans or things with blood, what will they do next? They do live eternally... according to Lestat. The same question could be asked to humans, what are we going to do when we run out of food, but we humans also die pretty easily, and then there aren't as many people eating... unlike with vampires who can't really die.
    I feel like something that's brought up a lot in the book is also another reason why the very act of drinking blood is so intimate. Vampires are supposed to be solitary creatures yet, Lestat was apparently lonely. Lestat, Claudia, and Louis, they needed company. I feel like this really goes into the human nature, we humans are social creatures. Though Vampires are given new natures, they can't really always shake off their human nature, even when they are turned at a young age with no human nature to experience. They want companionship. This longing for companionship might be why vampires have to drink blood. Somewhere deep inside them, though they think they're happy, they want to become a human again. So they drink blood, because it is such an intimate act, especially with a human. They know everything about a human when they drink that human's blood. They aren't as alone as they were a minute ago. It's a temporary fix for what they truly long for.