ellie zayas

In Interview With a Vampire, dependency is a big factor with the characters and their relationships. The start of the story, Louis basically craves death ever since his brother dies. It’s almost ironic that he becomes immortal because of this. After Lestat turns him, they’re basically depending on each other since they seem to be the only vampires in New Orlands up until they turn Claudia who grows up without having to be on her own. Even before she gets bitten by Louis, Claudia is seen clutched to her mother’s corpse. Because of Louis still lingering human emotions, he and Claudia killed Lestat out of vengeance. I believe this makes Louis the strongest vampire in this story because he’s still able to suppress his vampire tendencies for hundreds of years. While I was reading, I understood why vampires are so dependent on other vampires. Either they become partners with humans and then the humans eventually die, or they just have vampire partners who are with them f...

Frankenstein, Gothic Literature, and SciFi Marry Shelley’s Frankenstein is probably the most referenced novel when it comes to gothic literature. Gothic novels are less about the story being supernatural, and more about the fact that they make you feel uneasy and Shelley portrays that very well. I wanted to reference this video that I watched while I was reading this story because she makes a good point about how Frankenstein is indeed gothic literature, but it is also the first example of science fiction as well. Science fiction is defined to be a story trying to predict a dystopian or more advanced future. Throughout the first part of the story, Vincent is explained to be studying and experimenting on reviving the dead, which seems to the characters in the story to be impossible. The fact that this is not even possible now in 2015, goes to show that Shelley had a very advanced mindset to how she viewed her character Victor. He not only brings a creature to...