Week Two: Vampire: Love and Pain

In this weeks reading Interview with the vampire I have been asked a serious of questions.

Question #1. In your reading for the week what pairs of ideas or representations does the author place in opposition to one another? 

Answer #1.  I think one of the ideas the author has put in place is this idea morality. Often times in the book the vampire looks to what’s moral in making his decisions in his new or I guess old lifestyle. There doesn’t seem to be any evidence for why he’s choosing not to kill and for the majority of the time, to do the right thing.

Question #2. What set of values does the vampire represent?

Answer #2.  The vampire represents the good side of morality.  Its as if sometimes he’s not even a vampire, he’s turned into one but his appreciation for human life has not diminished.  He is still very human in that way in in that way he makes moral decisions instead of instinctual decisions or decisions based on an illusion that to be a vampire is to be at a higher standing, to being a predator, which is often the side (master) represents.

Question #3.  Are those the dominant or privileged ideas advanced in the work? How does the story you read embody larger arguments about values in human society? 

Answer #3.  I think yes this idea of being privileged i.e. being a vampire progresses through the book.  They have this idea that because there vampires they have this privilege to a ‘more important life’ that there needs are more important than others.  I mean this echo’s in so many ways in modern society.  You have the class system for one and then you just have ignorant people who are privileges and honestly sometime I feel like they don’t know better because that’s just how they were raised and no one ever told them anything different.