Relationships have always been complicated, and the conflict heightens when immortality, homosexual desires and eternal damnation are added to the mix. In the story of Louis and Lestat, two vampires as difference as night and day, all of these dynamics are prevalent. In Anne Rice’s book Interview With The Vampire, vampirism is an allegory for sexual deviance, and is a lifestyle that gives Louis, the protagonist, experience first hand with several theological motifs, including the seven deadly sins, creationism, and light versus dark.
The seven deadly sins are as follows: Lust, Gluttony, Envy, Pride, Wrath, Greed, and Sloth. Lestat, Louis’s vampire companion, displays all of the above attributes, but the one that Louis succumbs to most is
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He is prideful, taking great pains to spend money on fancy clothes and dress himself attractively. He is beautiful and seductive, his face otherworldly, and he uses his beauty to coerce his human victims into situations where they are easily manipulated. Clothes are not the only thing that he buys in excess- he spends large sums of money on china, decorations, silks, and anything else that he desires, revealing his greedy nature. Louis describes scenes where he will “satiate his thirst just momentarily with one person, and then goes to another”, even though it isn’t necessary to harm more than one person when he is drinking blood. This shows his unquenchable gluttony. Unlike Louis, Lestat plays with his food, torturing them and causing them pain for the sheer purpose of being violent. This reveals his wrath.
In everything but lust, Louis and Lestat are dissimilar, but there is one other sin that Louis struggles with. He is slothful, sitting for hours and laying in his coffin while the night passes, doing nothing but staring. This action may seem independent of Lestat’s influence, but in reality it is the result of Louis being overwhelmed in his new state of vampire consciousness, and he would not have these new ‘powers’ if Lestat had not changed Louis in the first