Generally when people think of vampires, they think of creatures that feed off of the blood of humans. However, there is a side expressed in “Interview with a Vampire” that isn’t seen in the older books. Are vampires able to survive off of animal blood? According to Louis, they can.
When he first became a vampire, Louis was uncomfortable with living off of the lives of others. After a while, Lestat is looking at some of the beautiful drinking glasses on the plantation and reflecting on how he misses them. Then he shows Louis “a little trick” (32). Lestat finds a rat, cuts its throat and “filled the glass rapidly with blood” (33). While sipping the blood from the crystal, he tells Louis that in certain places, like ships, he may have to live off rats and other animals.
Reluctant to kill people, Louis sees another option here. He begins to drink the blood of animals instead of that of humans. However, not too long later (for a vampire, anyway) he starts to wander the streets of New Orleans thinking about where vampires came from. Were they the devil’s servants? This question bothered him and he forgot how hungry he was. Then he came upon a young girl, crying by her mother’s bed. Her mother had died and she didn’t realize it. Hunger overcame Louis and he left the girl nearly dead.
Is it possible for a vampire to solely survive off of the blood of animals? I have recently read another vampire novel called “Twilight”. This series of novels is about a teenager named Bella who falls in love with Edward, a vampire. Edward and his family of vampires are very different from others of their kind because they can establish permanent settlements among humans. They are able to do this because they only kill animals. In the older novels I’ve studied, this doesn’t even appear to occur to the vampires. They are nearly obsessed with human victims. Modern-day vampires seem to have more of a conscience than the ones from books such as “Dracula”.
When he first became a vampire, Louis was uncomfortable with living off of the lives of others. After a while, Lestat is looking at some of the beautiful drinking glasses on the plantation and reflecting on how he misses them. Then he shows Louis “a little trick” (32). Lestat finds a rat, cuts its throat and “filled the glass rapidly with blood” (33). While sipping the blood from the crystal, he tells Louis that in certain places, like ships, he may have to live off rats and other animals.
Reluctant to kill people, Louis sees another option here. He begins to drink the blood of animals instead of that of humans. However, not too long later (for a vampire, anyway) he starts to wander the streets of New Orleans thinking about where vampires came from. Were they the devil’s servants? This question bothered him and he forgot how hungry he was. Then he came upon a young girl, crying by her mother’s bed. Her mother had died and she didn’t realize it. Hunger overcame Louis and he left the girl nearly dead.
Is it possible for a vampire to solely survive off of the blood of animals? I have recently read another vampire novel called “Twilight”. This series of novels is about a teenager named Bella who falls in love with Edward, a vampire. Edward and his family of vampires are very different from others of their kind because they can establish permanent settlements among humans. They are able to do this because they only kill animals. In the older novels I’ve studied, this doesn’t even appear to occur to the vampires. They are nearly obsessed with human victims. Modern-day vampires seem to have more of a conscience than the ones from books such as “Dracula”.
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I never thought it matter what blood the vampire had but apparently it may have some type of affect on these creatures.
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