Interview with the Vampire captures unbridled feminine rage through Claudia, an angry and sorrowful woman trapped in a teenager's body.
, I assumed we’d seen all there was to offer with the character. But then AMC’s TV adaptation debuted in 2022, and the series very quickly proved me wrong.injected new life into the child vampire, and introduced a whole new generation of fang lovers to this gloriously wicked ball of anger. Claudia stands out from the stereotypical female characters that have populated vampire stories of yore, and what truly sets her apart is her unbridled rage.
There’s an element of tragedy that is inextricable from the character. Turned into a vampire against her will and cursed to live an eternity in the mind of a woman but the body of a teenager, Claudia embodies the monstrous feminine, a woman stolen of choice railing against the forces that oppress her. Her turning point comes with the death of her first love, a young boy who Claudia accidentally drains in a moment of passion.
Reeling from heartbreak, she vows to embrace her vampirism with ferocity, and for Claudia, just as with Lestat, violence is a spectacle. Killing becomes a performance through which she can channel her rage whilst also satisfying that unquenchable thirst for blood. She keeps bloodied body parts as mementos of her kills and documents each victim’s dying words in a diary, or, as journalist Daniel Molloy describes it, “a kill list, in a teenager’s handwriting.
Lestat admits that he is cursed with his father’s temper, and the same could be said about Claudia; like a sculptor whose hand can always be identified in their creation, the traces of Lestat’s brutality will always be found in his daughter. His anger was passed onto Claudia like a family curse, but if Claudia is sentenced to a life of monstrosity, she will use that monstrosity to free herself and Louis, and she will bear no remorse for it.
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