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4.11 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I watched the movie when it first came out. So loved this graphic novel. You get to see it from her point of view.
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
My favorite girlboss and girlfailure
dark
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
fast-paced
Claudia; daughter, infant, doom. Famous for being a decades old woman stuck in a child’s body, this graphic novel has captured Anne Rice’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’ through Claudia’s perspective excellently. This review following on from here will gather to be a short character analysis of Claudia de Pointe du Lac de Lioncourt, exceptionally because she is my favorite character.
“Daughter” Claudia’s vampire creation has solely been brought upon the world to be Louis and Lestat’s daughter. Lestat creates Claudia to babytrap Louis, the main reason being to cease the latter from leaving him. Her creation is only and entirely made to be a tie between the “stormy romance” of the two vampires. A new name, new identity, new parents. Lestat is nurture, Louis nature. As Lestat teaches Claudia to hunt and feed, Louis leaves himself out of the scenarios considering his non-human diet. This stirs an inkling inside her, for how can she learn of her origin if her “father” won’t even accept his nature? “I am your vampire self more than you.”
Louis and Claudia’s dynamic borders from kinship to predatory. Claudia’s admiration for Louis derives from how, in her eyes, he sees her for how he truly is. As a grown woman stuck in a child’s body, Claudia craves for validation the same way a woman would from another man. Who’s her Lestat? Who’s her Louis? Louis is the one she seeks companionship from, for he is the man whom she has lived alongside for decades. They often refer to each other as "beloved" or "companion", initiating a relationship between them. Louis' descriptions of Claudia in the book are rather quite alarming too: "There was something dreadfully sensual about her lounging on the settee in a tiny nightgown of lace and stitched pearls; she became an eery and powerful seductress [...]". Eventually, nearing the end in between Claudia’s distaste of Armand, Louis plants a kiss on her lips. Claudia will never be the center of attention, though. It will never be about her. Even when she managed to get rid of their abhorred maker, Lestat was the only one wandering through her “beloved”’s mind. Afterwards, it is still not Claudia lingering in Louis’ mind as a companion, but Armand. The same man who will lead her to eternal doom.
Even in her last moments, the last thing she heard from Louis’ lips was the name of another man.
”You’re my father, even if you are the father of lies.” Claudia keeps on being her mother’s daughter. Even if their bond is almost mutually malevolent, Claudia (de Lioncourt) and her maker, Lestat de Lioncourt, are greater akin than they’d like to admit..
”Claudia was my dark child, evil of my evil. Claudia broke my heart.” — The Vampire Lestat
“Infant” Years will pass; empires will burn; but the vampire Claudia will remain an immortal child, frozen in time. “I began to notice a restlessness within myself [...], though the world around me was much the same as it had always been. The tedium of my immortality began to weigh on me. There weren’t enough books or music in the world to fill in the void widening within me.” Claudia is a doll on Madeleine’s shelves, wishing to be one of the beauty-dolls with their high cheekbones and feminine visage.
“Meanwhile, I was consigned to a living purgatory between the Parisian trollops, who felt entirely justified groping and fondling me as if I were an infant.” Imagine how much of a damnation it must be for one to be treated as a child by women with bearings she’d kill for.
“Doom” Doom will follow Claudia wherever she goes, a whisper in her ear. Whether New Orleans, East Europe, or in Paris amongst her kind; Claudia will never be free from the damnation gifted to her at her birth. The immortal child doomed from the start, haunted by the narrative.
Claudia will forever maintain a character I'm most interested in. Delainey Hayles as Claudia in season 2 is my favorite performance of the character, despite it being quite different from the original. The AMC show adapted Claudia to be the age of 14, best portrayed by Bailey Bass, who portrayed Claudia’s struggle of aging but being stuck in the same body. Reading this graphic novel was frightening. It truly displayed how young she was when she was turned and how ‘young’ she remained. Her fear is never finding a companion, likewise to book Claudia, whose fear led her to her adoration of Louis. Delainey's S2 portrayal shows Claudia subsequently. She wants to live, explore, and be with more of her kind. Achieving that through the Théâtre des Vampires in Paris. But even then, she's stuck being seen as a child by her fellow vampires. The AMC show adaptation will remain my favorite between the three Vampire Chronicles displays (book, movie, show). It fleshed out all the characters, gave a paternal- bordering siblinglike bond to Louis and Claudia, and gave her a theatrical ending. I purposely left out Claudia’s assassination of her maker, Lestat, because no words can describe becoming the one you abhor in the process of killing him.
“Daughter” Claudia’s vampire creation has solely been brought upon the world to be Louis and Lestat’s daughter. Lestat creates Claudia to babytrap Louis, the main reason being to cease the latter from leaving him. Her creation is only and entirely made to be a tie between the “stormy romance” of the two vampires. A new name, new identity, new parents. Lestat is nurture, Louis nature. As Lestat teaches Claudia to hunt and feed, Louis leaves himself out of the scenarios considering his non-human diet. This stirs an inkling inside her, for how can she learn of her origin if her “father” won’t even accept his nature? “I am your vampire self more than you.”
Louis and Claudia’s dynamic borders from kinship to predatory. Claudia’s admiration for Louis derives from how, in her eyes, he sees her for how he truly is. As a grown woman stuck in a child’s body, Claudia craves for validation the same way a woman would from another man. Who’s her Lestat? Who’s her Louis? Louis is the one she seeks companionship from, for he is the man whom she has lived alongside for decades. They often refer to each other as "beloved" or "companion", initiating a relationship between them. Louis' descriptions of Claudia in the book are rather quite alarming too: "There was something dreadfully sensual about her lounging on the settee in a tiny nightgown of lace and stitched pearls; she became an eery and powerful seductress [...]". Eventually, nearing the end in between Claudia’s distaste of Armand, Louis plants a kiss on her lips. Claudia will never be the center of attention, though. It will never be about her. Even when she managed to get rid of their abhorred maker, Lestat was the only one wandering through her “beloved”’s mind. Afterwards, it is still not Claudia lingering in Louis’ mind as a companion, but Armand. The same man who will lead her to eternal doom.
Even in her last moments, the last thing she heard from Louis’ lips was the name of another man.
”You’re my father, even if you are the father of lies.” Claudia keeps on being her mother’s daughter. Even if their bond is almost mutually malevolent, Claudia (de Lioncourt) and her maker, Lestat de Lioncourt, are greater akin than they’d like to admit..
”Claudia was my dark child, evil of my evil. Claudia broke my heart.” — The Vampire Lestat
“Infant” Years will pass; empires will burn; but the vampire Claudia will remain an immortal child, frozen in time. “I began to notice a restlessness within myself [...], though the world around me was much the same as it had always been. The tedium of my immortality began to weigh on me. There weren’t enough books or music in the world to fill in the void widening within me.” Claudia is a doll on Madeleine’s shelves, wishing to be one of the beauty-dolls with their high cheekbones and feminine visage.
“Meanwhile, I was consigned to a living purgatory between the Parisian trollops, who felt entirely justified groping and fondling me as if I were an infant.” Imagine how much of a damnation it must be for one to be treated as a child by women with bearings she’d kill for.
“Doom” Doom will follow Claudia wherever she goes, a whisper in her ear. Whether New Orleans, East Europe, or in Paris amongst her kind; Claudia will never be free from the damnation gifted to her at her birth. The immortal child doomed from the start, haunted by the narrative.
Claudia will forever maintain a character I'm most interested in. Delainey Hayles as Claudia in season 2 is my favorite performance of the character, despite it being quite different from the original. The AMC show adapted Claudia to be the age of 14, best portrayed by Bailey Bass, who portrayed Claudia’s struggle of aging but being stuck in the same body. Reading this graphic novel was frightening. It truly displayed how young she was when she was turned and how ‘young’ she remained. Her fear is never finding a companion, likewise to book Claudia, whose fear led her to her adoration of Louis. Delainey's S2 portrayal shows Claudia subsequently. She wants to live, explore, and be with more of her kind. Achieving that through the Théâtre des Vampires in Paris. But even then, she's stuck being seen as a child by her fellow vampires. The AMC show adaptation will remain my favorite between the three Vampire Chronicles displays (book, movie, show). It fleshed out all the characters, gave a paternal- bordering siblinglike bond to Louis and Claudia, and gave her a theatrical ending. I purposely left out Claudia’s assassination of her maker, Lestat, because no words can describe becoming the one you abhor in the process of killing him.
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
When most people think back on their early childhoods, the memories they’re most likely to recall are attending preschool, going to birthday parties, and making friends. For Claudia, her first memory is of the night she was turned into a vampire. Her two guardians (the ones responsible for her transformation) are Louis and Lestat. Louis guides her towards studying the classics, enjoying music, and appreciating the beauty of the natural world. Lestat, the sleek and sophisticated alpha male of their trio, on the other hand, is more interested in exposing her to the carefree life of murder and mayhem that their dark lifestyle has to offer (in other words, he’s the “fun” parent). Because of the peculiar nature of vampire biology, Claudia cannot outgrow her childlike body, though her mind has quickly matured past the point of childish interests. She soon begins to question the oddity of her existence, and wonders: Is her little coven of three the only vampires in existence, or are there others of their kind elsewhere? Although she presses her guardians for answers, both are reluctant to explain and continue to treat her like a child rather than the young woman that she has matured into. When the truth is at last revealed to her, it’s more devastating than she expected, and puts a nearly unbearable sense of strain on their family life.
Interview with the Vampire: Claudia’s Story is a graphic novel adaptation of the 1976 novel by Anne Rice. Instead of tracing the story as originally told entirely through Louis’s POV, Claudia’s Story is seen through Claudia’s eyes, and manages to fill in the gaps of Louis’s narrative. Although it provides no surprising revelations into Claudia’s character, I have to applaud the adapter’s efforts for approaching the story from this particular angle, by highlighting Claudia’s predicament as a metaphor for teen angst and rebellion.
At times eerie, twisted, disturbing, and darkly romantic as the original novel, Claudia’s Story starts out strong, but is flawed by the change of pace at the three quarter mark. From this point to the end, the story’s pacing speeds up considerably, and inevitably causes it to lose some of its dramatic power. Fans of the “Vampire Chronicles” and the 1994 movie should be able to follow the action as it wraps up, but first-time readers of the story may need to consult the original source material. Recommended for mature readers for violence.
Interview with the Vampire: Claudia’s Story is a graphic novel adaptation of the 1976 novel by Anne Rice. Instead of tracing the story as originally told entirely through Louis’s POV, Claudia’s Story is seen through Claudia’s eyes, and manages to fill in the gaps of Louis’s narrative. Although it provides no surprising revelations into Claudia’s character, I have to applaud the adapter’s efforts for approaching the story from this particular angle, by highlighting Claudia’s predicament as a metaphor for teen angst and rebellion.
At times eerie, twisted, disturbing, and darkly romantic as the original novel, Claudia’s Story starts out strong, but is flawed by the change of pace at the three quarter mark. From this point to the end, the story’s pacing speeds up considerably, and inevitably causes it to lose some of its dramatic power. Fans of the “Vampire Chronicles” and the 1994 movie should be able to follow the action as it wraps up, but first-time readers of the story may need to consult the original source material. Recommended for mature readers for violence.