Use Of Figurative Language In Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire
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Anne Rice in Interview with the Vampire uses figurative language to describe the miserable and endless lives of the vampires and to send a message to modern humans that aging and dying is very important because being immortal can lead to meaningless life. Rice says “eternally young and eternally ancient” to show that vampires cannot age and to show how tragic not being able to age is (Rice 141). For example, Claudia cannot gain everything out of her life because her real self is captured inside a five year old’s body, proving that being immortal is depressing. Claudia also shows that not being able to die is meaningless because when there is not an end to something, it gets pointless. Rice also uses phrases such as “a silver clock ticking in