The Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice Theme Blog

Focus: Determine theme/ analyze its development throughout the novel.

The Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice is about a man, of too much human nature, becoming and coping with being a blood feeding vampire in the past centuries. He tells about his experiences in an interview with a human in the 20th century. 

The themes in the story are coming of age, courage, effects of the past, manipulation, need for change, obligation, perseverance, quest for knowledge, revenge, seizing the moment, etc. In the story he faces many challenges not only from the changes in time century to century but from the other vampires he's involved with. His main challenge is, the harsh and uncaring emotionally scarred, Lestat.

Lestat is a huge catalyst of conflict in the story. He forces our main character to change and to grow up as well as gain courage and get revenge for all the years of suffering. Lestat is not only a problem himself but he made problems. He made a vampire out of an innocent girl in a family ruined by plague. He forced a woman to be forever stuck in a child's body just so that he would have the obligation to stay with him. The setting also affected the themes in The Interview with the Vampire. The setting in The Interview with the Vampire was constantly changing. This forced the main character to change as well according to current times. These conflicts and characters influenced the themes greatly.

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