Interview with a vampire_Blog #2

After reading the book and watching the film about Interview with a Vampire, I found it very interesting how the author tried portraying intimacy, obsession, and power. At first, reading the book felt very, very sexual. It caught me off guard and it surprised me. Their obsession with having and turning Claudia into a vampire was intense and perverse. They all seemed intimate with one another and it opened my eyes a bit during class when we were talking about the novel on how that they could have been together in a sense of a relationship (Lestat and Louis). I wouldn't say it was a romantic relationship but more of a bromance.  Louis depended on Lestat because Lestat was his creator. He looked up to Lestat to figure out how to steer in this new life. But there wasnt anything romantic about it.  And because of that dependency, Lestat took advantage of Louis and it became a power struggle. Especially when Lestat turned Claudia into a vampire just so Louis cant leave him.

I was surprised when my professor touched upon the fact that Claudia was a very feminist character. She was created in the 1950's depicting how women felt and were treated in society by men. Back then they were treated like children and they had to constantly act the part. So Claudia was demonstrated how women just wanted to be themselves or feel more independent. In the movie, the character portrays anger and sadness in how shes forced to always behave.