God Is Flawed: In that his refusal to consider letting any (other) imperfect entity into Heaven causes eternal suffering for many of the dead. I Hate You, Vampire Dad: Either Trope Maker or Trope Codifier. Fledglings usually wind up despising their creators. Averted by Gabrielle, who, although she finds Lestat too boring for an eternal companion, still loves him and pops up from time to time to help him out. Louis' attempts to help Babette Freniere after Lestat kills her brother become this: While his advice initially allows her to save her family's fortune and regain her social status, he is forced to reveal his nature to her when his slaves drive him from Pointe du Lac. She becomes the first example of mortals tending to Go Mad from the Revelation that vampires exist, and dies "young and insane". Plot summary [ edit ] American author Anne Rice created The Vampire Chronicles. Interview with the Vampire (1976) [ edit ]

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Clute, John; Langford, David; Sleight, Graham (eds.). "Rice, Anne". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (4thed.) . Retrieved December 12, 2021. Cursed with Awesome: The vampires have eternal youth, super speed, super strength, telepathy, telekinesis and the power of flight, but some of them still see their existence as a curse. Within Rice's mythology, vampires possess certain paranormal abilities known as gifts. For younger undead, these gifts usually manifest in subtle ways. For older immortals – particularly ancient ones – these manifest as potent displays of both magic and their own inhuman natures. As vampires age, they become both stronger as well as more unnatural and statuesque in their appearance. Their demeanor usually becomes more tampered and calculating, even moreso as their more potent gifts manifest; which further distances them from their former human sentiments. I Cannot Self-Terminate: The older the vampire, the harder they are to kill. The oldest and most powerful ones cannot die even if they step outside during the day. If they wish to die, they need help from another powerful vampire. Marius actually cites the inability to self-terminate as a reason a younger vampire may choose to not drink blood of an older vampire to strengthen themselves. Drowning My Sorrows: Louis and Quinn. Daniel sort of, although he's trying to drown his on-coming madness from the knowledge that vampires exist.

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Andreeva, Nellie (August 13, 2021). " Interview With The Vampire: Sam Reid to Play Lestat in AMC Series Based on Anne Rice's Book". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved February 2, 2023.

Let Me Tell You a Story: Marius in The Vampire Lestat, and many other examples. Marius tends to do this a lot. Charm Person: Vampires have the capacity to be this to humans and, to a lesser degree, weaker vampires. Armand is something of an oddity: his Mind Control abilities seem disproportionate to his other skills, and he can affect vampires of otherwise similar strength. Lestat meets the Devil, who calls himself Memnoch. He takes Lestat on a whirlwind tour of Heaven and Hell, and retells the entirety of history from his own point of view in an effort to convince Lestat to join him as God's adversary. In his journey, Memnoch claims he is not evil, but merely working for God by ushering lost souls into Heaven. Lestat is left in confusion, unable to decide whether or not to cast his lot with the Devil. During this time, Armand and David also make appearances. What I love most about this series is the characters and the complex relationships they have. It was certainly a pleasure to see Lestat with them, particularly Armand as he’s definitely one of my favorites. However, any other vampires in the story are very minimally present. a b Otterson, Joe (May 13, 2020). "Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, Lives of the Mayfair Witches Rights Land at AMC". Variety . Retrieved May 14, 2020.Prince Lestat (2014) rejoins the remaining vampires a decade later as Lestat faces pressure to lead them. [2] [6] Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (2016) and Blood Communion (2018) continued this new narrative thread. I did like that in Anne Rice's version of Hell all you needed to ascend to Heaven was to learn to forgive. a b c d Keller, James R. (2000). Anne Rice and Sexual Politics: The Early Novels. McFarland. pp.12–14. ISBN 978-0786408467. Two of the books have been adapted more or less faithfully to film: Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned.

Lower-Class Lout: Roger describes Terry, his late ex and Theadora's mother, this way in Memnoch the Devil. He found her gaucherie both contemptible and sexy, which is how we got Dora. Another example is Armand's fat, greasy-haired victim from The Vampire Armand. C-List Fodder: Once unleashed, Akasha kills off most of the vampire race except, conveniently, for every single major character in the series, and plots to exterminate all men on earth. Together they formed the First Brood and stood against the Divine Parents and their followers, the Queen's Blood. Overwhelmed and captured, the twins were separated and sent into exile; Maharet to familiar lands in the Red Sea, and Mekare to uncharted waters out towards the west. After two millennia, the Queen and King went mute and catatonic. They were maintained like statues by elders and priests under the impression that if Akasha – the host of Amel, the Sacred Core – died, all vampires would die with her. As the Common Era arrived, most undead forgot. Bullying a Dragon: The Talamasca decides to issue a "Declaration of Enmity" against Lestat, who could obliterate the Louisiana branch if he cared enough. Then Stirling Oliver breaks and enters Lestat's home, during a tenuous truce, on the grounds that he was curious. Some fledglings exist in a state of slavery to their masters. Think about how Lestat tried to keep Claudia as a perpetual ward, or Eudoxia's hapless servants and lover.Hemo Erotic: When Claudia asks Louis what it was like to make love, he replies that it was like "the shadow of killing," which they perform by draining their victims' blood. Bedouin Rescue Service: Bedouins saved Mekare and Maharet after Akasha and Enkil sent them into the desert to die in The Queen of the Damned. While Memnoch is in exile, God takes on a human form, Jesus. God believes that by appearing in human form, performing miracles, suffering and dying, he will create a religion that will allow more humans to attain the love of God by suffering and sacrifice. This is in sharp contrast to Memnoch's approach of attaining purity through love and experience of the wonders of creation. The two confront each other in the desert. God continuously argues that Man is a creature of Nature and ruled by its laws; only through suffering and death can man evolve and eventually be worthy of Heaven. Memnoch continuously argues that suffering and death has no value, and Man needlessly suffers in Life and in Sheol while already worthy of God's light yet deprived of knowing Him. Ephebophilia: While Marius himself can't experience arousal due to the Dark Gift, he manually stimulates the adolescent Armand and surrounds himself with a troupe of boys in The Vampire Armand. One scene in Memnoch The Devil that I felt was completely unnecessary was the scene of Lestat drinking the blood from the character, Dora's, Sanitary napkin. What was the point of this? Was Anne Rice going through her monthly cycle when writing this and wanted imagine a way to end it a lot faster?