Then she tore her hair and beat her breast, and abandoned herself to all the violences of extravagant emotion [ ] .
Count Dracula has stolen this woman's child and fed it to the women vampires residing in his castle. When this poor woman comes to plead for the life of her baby, Dracula replies to her entreaty by summoning the wolves to kill her.
[ ]There was no cry from the woman, and the howling of the wolves was but short. Before long they streamed away singly, licking their lips. I could not pity her, for I knew now what had become of her child, and she was better dead [ ] .
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Louis's sorrow for the loss of life makes Dracula's utter lack of remorse all the more obvious and vile.
Louis's inner struggle leads us to examine a fundamental difference between him and the count. Louis has everything fighting against him, including his own instinctive desires as a vampire. Instead of taking the easiest route, which is that of acceptance, he chooses to fight for what he believes is the right and moral path of existence. This is probably the hardest thing he could possibly do. Although there are problems along the way, such as the turning of young Claudia into a child vampire, Louis never gives in completely to the darkness within him. Lestat is the vampire who created Louis and made him what he ends up despising. Even when bombarded by Lestat's beliefs Louis still maintains his own views on how the earth should be. .
"Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms." .
Louis fights against this outlook that Lestat tries to have him accept, and in standing up for what he believes in, he becomes that much stronger.
