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Time Travel - With Lestat, he travels through time and space on Earth and from Heaven to Hell, taking various forms, depending where the location deems appropriate. Odd Friendship: Even Lestat seems a little bemused by his friendship with human Talamasca director David Talbot. The weirdness reaches an apex when Lestat sleeps off a sunburn on one of David's hunting trophies. Naked. The Vampire Chronicles are a series of novels by Anne Rice that revolve around the adventures of an ever-changing coven of vampires. Throughout the series the protagonist, Lestat, seeks the origin of the vampire species and tries to fit his need for blood into a workable moral system.
The first vampires appeared in Ancient Egypt, their origin connected to spirits which existed before Earth. Mekare and Maharet, twin witches living on Mount Carmel, were able to speak to the mischievous and bloodthirsty shade Amel. Amel grew to love Mekare, becoming her familiar. In time, soldiers sent by Akasha, Queen of Egypt, burned their village and captured the two witches. Coveting their knowledge and power, the Queen imprisoned and tortured the witches for some time; this infuriated the spirit of Amel, who began to haunt Akasha's villages and her nobles. Bad Boss: Armand to the Parisian Children of Darkness. From his description, other coven leaders fall into this category as well. Immortality Bisexuality: Subverted, as it turns out that Lestat and Armand were bisexual before they were turned. Demonic Vampires: According to The Vampire Lestat, the first vampire was created when a bodiless demon fused with the blood of a dying Egyptian queen, and its power sustains all younger vampires. However, later books (and the Devil himself) clarify that the "demon" is a once-human spirit who escaped the afterlife, so vampires have no direct link to Hell.What good is it to believe in religious deities if you cannot believe in goodness? This has caused Lestat to become cold in the later books and unrelatable. He obsesses with his new-found religion but real faith. The faith in anything good or decent seems lost. This is more important than any other faith you can have in beings governing the universe. In fact I feel belief in God REQUIRES faith in goodness first. So this new found religious piousness in the character feels shallow... empty... And Anne Rice, herself, doesn't seem to realize it. The homoerotic overtones of The Vampire Chronicles are also well-documented. [12] [13] [14] [15] Susan Ferraro of The New York Times wrote that "Gay readers see in the vampires' lonely, secretive search for others of their kind a metaphor for the homosexual experience." [16] In 1996, Rice commented:
Memnoch's literary name, Lucifer, is Latin for "Light Bringer" or "Morning Star", the latter of which is associated with the planet Venus. 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. Martyr Without a Cause: Armand and Mael both attempt self-immolation in the belief that this will aid the miracle cred of Veronica's veil. Not only is the veil already drawing massive crowds, but it's dubious, at best, that most witnesses would regard a rash of spontaneous combustions as a sign of God's love. Marius lampshades the trope by saying, "What a fool," when he hears about Mael's attempt.Kill It with Fire: One of the few ways to actually kill a vampire, although you'd better have the kerosene handy: Marius and Lestat both survive sloppy burnings, and Pandora uses a small blaze as a form of handwashing. Ironic Hell: As shown in Memnoch the Devil, people in Hell have to suffer through the bad things they inflicted on others to gain the necessary empathy for redemption. God is a powerful and immortal being worshipped by angels, His first creation, since before the existence of matter and time. The Earth was his creation. Because of this, angels spent much time admiring His handiwork and singing His praises. However, God does not appear to be omniscient or even entirely omnibenevolent. Despite assurances, Memnoch, an archangel, claims to have changed God's opinion on the importance and supernatural quality of humanity. Forced to Watch: Due to Maharet's power, Akasha can't simply kill her. Instead Akasha threatens to kill Maharet's loved ones before her eyes, unless Maharet joins her. Manipulative Bastard: Lestat in Interview, Armand throughout the first three books, and Eudoxia in Blood and Gold.
My characters have always been transcending gender ... I think the main issue with me is love, not gender. I have never understood the great prejudice against gay people in our society ... I don't know why I see the world that way, but I know that it's very much a point with me, that we should not be bound by prejudices where gender is concerned. [3] Oddo, Marco Vito (July 23, 2022). "AMC's Interview with the Vampire Series to Premiere Just in Time for Halloween". Collider . Retrieved July 25, 2022. Historical Domain Character: None of the major ones, but we get cameos from Sandro Botticelli, Savonarola, and Marie-Antoinette, to name a few.
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Anti-Villain: Lestat in Interview. He's controlling, egotistic, selfish, and proud; he also proves to be Claudia's main obstacle to freedom and Louis goes between tolerating him and flat-out hating him. But at the same time he's easily the most fascinating character in the story and his attitudes set him apart from other actual antagonists encountered later. It's not so much that Memnoch The Devil has a bad premise. It's actually very intriguing. The Devil tells his side of things to a vampire. This can be very interesting. I just feel it would have been better if Anne Rice wrote this as a stand alone novel without using her pre-established characters.
This (except for the "exterminate all men" part) is justified in that Lestat's cadre of friends is the upper echelon of vampires who have been around for hundreds to thousands of years and who have very aggressively marked out their territory. They've gotten that old by being very clever and by learning how to move around in vampire society (i.e. learning who to not piss off). The vampires that Akasha kills are the young ones barely out of their first century, and considering how few older vampires are actually out there it seems reasonable to assume that even if she hadn't gone on a killing spree, most of them would still have died competing with one another for supremacy in a process of natural selection. Chronic Villainy: A lot of vampires, including Louis and Lestat, switch to surviving on animal blood or the "little drink," but eventually surrender to temptation.
The vampires are becoming too saintly. Lestat's been through Heaven and Hell and all of creation, or at least the character thinks he has, we're supposed to assume he has and trust it. And Vittorio sees angels. Vittorio reminds me of the little boy in The Sixth sense. 'I see dead people. This isn't exactly a mistake but with all the spiritual content the angst from the vampire's uncertainty about the fabric of reality and the nature of good and evil his horribly compromised. A certain human-ness is gone. Anyway, didn't Anne hint once that she wanted to do a story where the government or a laboratory might learn about The vampires and capture them and try to figure them out or worse. That could have been a good novel, maybe even more believable than Memnoch The Devil. The novels are just getting too spiritual and history orientated and not so much story orientated. And People are now just buying them, no matter what happens in them, just because it has Anne Rice's name attached to them and out of loyalty they feel they should love them, especially if Anne Rice says that Memnoch The Devil is her greatest work and that she is no longer happy with what she had done with The Queen of the damned- even though that novel had explained what happened in The Vampire Lestat, it told what became of the boy reporter, it united all the vampires, it explained where The vampires came from and it introduced The Talamasca- all and all I'd say that's pretty damned good!