I'm not going to get through with this post before the bell, I bet you.
Anyway, I just wanted to get this topic out in the open. I know we've mentioned some of this in our more verbal discussions, but... love and lust for Vampires.
I know that at some point, in our first day of reading, Louis compared drinking Lestat's blood to sex. I also know that later on, Louis was--
Oh, lord, I'll do this at home.
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ReplyDelete--talking about... I don't know? the act of killing, perhaps? and the boy--the reporter--makes some comment about how it sounds like love.
ReplyDeleteLouis is constantly talking about the love of a vampire and the love of a human, and how he has both of them for Claudia...
... and yet he is so completely overwhelmed by his affection for Armand at the end of Book Three. He says that his love for Armand is equal to his love for Claudia, but I can't begin to believe that. He was so willing to leave to go to Armand, but he didn't have the same blood connection as with Claudia. The same "vampire love."
And he quickly grows bored and distant with Armand...
Of course, the true purpose of all this is probably just to add interest, but why do Anne Rice and Louis make such a distinction? It seems that vampires cannot have intercourse--although, more likely, the males just can't get it up anymore. But for Louis, it hardly matters. Killing gives him something much more gratifying...
... and that same act is almost sexual to the humans, isn't it? Such as the boy Denis, that Armand has as a slave... or the woman who was killed on-stage not long before. Why highlight this? Is Rice saying something about human society? This will go along with my next topic...