Vampires are gothic characters that have been around for ages and are constantly evolving. How the characters become vampires, how they live their everyday lives, how they feed, and especially how they interact with others and the world around them. Vampires are immortal characters living within the human world. This brings up the relationship between humans and vampires. In some stories humans are nothing but blood banks, but in others humans can represent the innocence of vampires. Interview with the Vampire reminded me of vampire stories that I used to read when I was younger, like the Mortal Instrument Series, and some shows like The Vampire Diaries. I was constantly comparing the relationships between all of the vampire stories I have known to this book.
When it comes to vampire relationships, especially love, everything is immortal. And most relationships revolve around the transition in becoming a vampire. Like the relationship between Louis and Lestat. The one vampire Armand mentions how strong his love is for the vampire who turned him, "A love so strong he couldn't allow me to grow old and die...", and Louis is shocked by this, he hates Lestat, but if he likes it or not Lestat and him are bonded.
The the show the Vampire Diaries, it is a modern day vampire story with similar vampire characteristics. When Damon and Stefan were turned into vampires by Katherine, they were both in love with her. Even hundreds of years later they still had love with her, until their love for her progressed into hate after all of the evil acts she committed. Which is very similar to the relationship between Louis and Lestat. Even events in the book and in the television series are very similar from Lestat being burnt in the fire but actually having had survive, and Katherine surviving many near death experiences where she should have died. And the theme of turning innocent people into vampires, like the character of Claudia in Interview with a Vampire, and characters like Caroline in Vampire Diaries. They become big characters in the story after their innocence being taken and their mortality ripped from them.
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