How does lestat die in interview with the vampire

We first see this with his poor father. The old man is a crusty shell of a human being, and Lestat keeps him around even though he hates his guts. Even Louis likes Lestat's dad more than Lestat does. Dad tells us that "Lestat would never play [chess] with him" 1. Not even that, Lestat? When Lestat has to flee Pointe du Lac, he knows his father won't make it, so he just… forces Louis to kill him. Lestat's major mistake in his eternal life is the creation of Claudia.

He does it for all the wrong reasons. Louis wants to leave him, so Lestat creates Claudia, because he thinks she will force Louis to stay. It's like if Cam and Mitchell on Modern Family were vampires on the verge of divorce and adopted a child thinking it would help them stay together—and then their child killed one of them.

The moral of this story: if your relationship is on the rocks, having a child is a Very Bad Idea. Claudia tries to kill Lestat by poisoning him and slitting his throat, but he manages to survive. So then Louis and Claudia burn Lestat—and their apartment—when he comes back to avenge himself. He survives that , too. Surprise, surprise: Lestat survives yet again. This time, however, he returns to New Orleans and spends his days being super pathetic. He won't even eat babies. He sits around in his beautiful house and cries about how hard it is to be a vampire.

What's happened is that he's switched places with Louis, except instead of just being broody, he's also really whiny about it. He begs Louis to come back to him, but Louis has had it. The credit for this seduction belongs to Tom Cruise and his performance and Anne Rice for the Lestat source material.

Cruise does a great job of giving Lestat levels. He does these horrible things but you can see the pain, fear, and regret in him at times, especially when dealing with Claudia. Anne Rice wrote Interview with the Vampire while grieving the death of her daughter Michelle.

Michelle died from leukemia at the age of five. Rice has been open about her and her husband using alcohol to cope with that pain. She has also shared that Lestat and Louis are her and her husband. She identifies more with Louis, but Lestat is who she wishes she could be and parts of her evolution. She also thought about her daughter when creating Claudia, but of course their personalities are different. The book also represents the many different emotions that Rice was dealing with while creating the book.

In the Talks at Google series , Rice shared how writing about vampires helped her open up as a writer. And it was a comic book image. Then I could talk about everything that mattered to me. Absolutely everything: grief, pain, good and evil, conscious, tragedy, horror, the fear that life was meaningless. Just a million things.

In Interview with the Vampire , the audience is basically Daniel. Daniel also represents fans who read these vampire books and become intoxicated by the story. They ignore the tragic part and see the fantasy of immortality and vampire powers. Then Louis shakes them back to reality with the scariness of vampires. I'm going to give you the choice I never had. No one is doomed like a vampire.

By the end of Interview with the Vampire, the audience is left to ponder the same questions that Louis has about life, loneliness, and meaning. Lestat : Yes. I'm bored of this prattle. Louis : But if we can live without taking human life? It's possible. Lestat : Anything's possible. Just try it for a week. Come to New Orleans. Let me show you some real sport. New Orleans Whore : [fearful whispering] It's a coffin, it's a coffin. Lestat : What's that, my love? New Orleans Whore : It's a coffin. Lestat : Why, so it is.

You must be dead. New Orleans Whore : I'm not dead, am I? Louis : No, you are not dead. Lestat : Not yet. Yvette : [to Louis] Are you not hungry, sir?

Lestat : Aux contraire, mon cher, he could eat the whole colony. Louis : [as Yvette starts to pick up Louis's plate, he grabs her arm and looks at the veins in her neck] I'll finish it, Yvette. Now leave us. Lestat : Do we forgive each other then? Lestat : Come to New Orleans, then. The Paris Opera's in town. We can try some French cuisine. Louis : Forgive me if I have a lingering respect for mortal life. Lestat : Whining coward of a vampire that prowls the night killing rats and poodles; you could have finished us both.

Louis : You've condemned me to Hell. Lestat : I don't know any Hell. Lestat : [dancing around with the corpse of Claudia's mother] There's still life in the old lady yet. Lestat : [to Louis] Feed on what you will. Rats, chickens, poodles, I'll leave you to it and watch you come around. But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.

Lestat : Enough! Claudia : I want some more. Lestat : You are a vampire who never knew what life was until it ran out in a big gush over your lips. Lestat : Do you still want death or is this enough? Louis : Enough. Lestat : Louie I'm so glad you're here. I've dreamed She never should've been Louis : It's all past, isn't it? Lestat : Still beautiful, Louie.

You always were the strong one. Louis : [Lestat jumps back in fear as Louis approaches him] Don't be frightened. I mean you no harm. Lestat : You've come home to me then? Lestat : You remember how I was? The vampire that I was?

Louis : Yes, I remember. Lestat : [sighs] No one could refuse me. Not even you, Louie. Lestat : [Gently laughing] Yes, you tried.

And the more you tried Lestat Lestat : Oh, I can't. Stop it, Louie! I hate such lights. And that noise! They make the night brighter than the day! Louis : [Kneeling down in front of Lestat] Lestat It's false light.

It can't harm you. Lestat : [Whispered] If you stay with me, I could venture out again Louis : I must leave now. Lestat : I am afraid, madam, my days are sacrosanct. Lestat : [Lestat follows a trail of bloody dead rats to a tunnel] All I need to find you, Louis, is follow the corpses of rats. Lestat : We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment. Lestat : It's so easy you almost feel sorry for them.

You'll get used to killing. Just forget about that mortal coil. You'll become accustomed to it, all too quickly. Lestat : Have you said your goodbyes to the light? Sign In. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles