Vampiric struggles?

The first hand account of Louis' life as a vampire gives way to this new sense of vampire that Anne Rice has created through her novel, Interview With a Vampire. I believe that with this novel a new age of vampires became apparent. A new age of vampires, or vampire, where his (Louis') shortcoming, doubts, and his fears all come into light with this interview style novel. Never before, or at least from what I have read, has human emotion been so deeply intertwined with vampiric passion, such is that within Louis.
"You must understand that what I felt for Babette now was a desire for communication, stronger than any other desire i then felt...except for the physical desire for.....blood."(67)Louis is a character in a constant struggle with his once incomplete human life to his now incomplete vampiric life. There is a constant struggle between the two; one which Rice wishes to display prominantly. He wishes so deeply for a connection with someone other than Lestat, while also seemingly wishing to keep his human reality in tact; although it is now non-existent; something Louis must come to terms with. This struggle between human and vampiric life comes more into focus for me with the addition to the squad-Claudia. She is a vampire women in a beautiful doll like child's body. To me this is the most abstract and confusing character in the novel. Her presence is uncanny to say the least. Her representation of womanly beauty through her seductive vampirisim and yet she often times falls back into a childlike needy role. Claudia as a character is one that seems to be so easily to break her basically non-existent human ties; or does she? Louis says on pg 99, "And then strange things began to happen, for though she said little and was the chubby, round-figured child still, I'd find her tucked in the arm of my chair reading the work of Aristotle or Boethius or a new novel just come over the Atlantic. Or pecking ou the music of Mozart we'd only heard the night before with an infallible ear." This of course he is speaking of Claudia who is beginning to dynamically grow up into a woman of the world. However, she most continually throughout the novels falls back into a child like state. Such is that on pg 138, when she is weeping over Louis' repulsion for her, "I foundher lying on my bed in the place where I often read, her knees drawn up, her whole frame shaking with her sobs. The sound of it was terrible. It was more heartfel, more awful than her mortal crying had even been."
Louis and Claudia as Rice's character for me represent a dynamic coming of a vampire unlike that of the stereotyped evil, bloodlusting, castle dwelling, vampire of prior. This new age vampire, mostly Louis, is one that seems to have an innate feeling of struggle between his human and vampiric nature. Of course his human nature is now non-existent; it is something that is most interesting to watch as his character develops and copes with his new way of life, ultimately becoming desentisized to his irrefutable blood lust.