Vampires and immortality

         It seems to me that recurring theme in vampire stories is the theme of immortality and its worth to those vampires that have it. It seems that often the vampires that are the villains are portraid as shallow and only seem to derive meaning from more carnal things, money, sex, power, and impunity in their actions. The protagonist vampires seam to be the ones that suffer realizing that their eternal life leads to loss and suffering and prevents them from creating any meaningful non vampire connection in fearful promise of it ending the same. It seems that quite a few of the characters in interview with a vampire deal with this issue, an empty existence in an un ending one. Claudia being an excellent example and who will comparable with another vampire story i enjoy. Claudia being a seventy year old woman trapped in a five year old body and hating her existence is an interesting plot point. She wants to be as physically mature as she is mentally mature, she wants romantic and sexual experiences, she wants that extra connection and to be loved. Im going to divert for a moment to another vampire story i really enjoy. The graphic novel series The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Mike Huddleston, and in it the origin of vampires is an angle who more then anything wishes to be loved, especially by humans. But when goes to a village to help it the people keep their distance scared and suspicious of him, he is disheartened and disappointed, then and old woman comes to him cursing and spitting and strikes him. In anger of the whole situation he tears her to pieces, eating her flesh and drinking her blood. When his brothers discover him and what he had done they ripped him into pieces and buried them in the earth, those pieces bound to the earth like roots and grew into the original ancient vampires. The heart and mind becoming the Master, the villain of the story. The Master constantly seeks out the devotion and love as the creature he had been created from, he views his immortality as a gift, a way and means to set a massive plan into motion to make the world devoted to him. The Master and Claudia both want a level of connection and love from other no vampiric creatures and they both have immortality, I just find it quite interesting that one sees it as gift and one as a curse when they both want the same thing.