For centuries, the vampire and the werewolves are adversaries. They viewed each other as natural enemies. In Forks, two parties committed to staying in their territory peacefully. The peace did not last long because of one vampire, Victoria, created a newborn vampire army willing to expunge the Cullens. At the middle of Eclipse, Alice foreseen that a newborn army is marching tour the Cullens’ territory, and wanting to murder Bella. The hostile ended after Jacob and Edward notice that they have to collaborate to protect Bella. While the Cullens are planning on their countermove, Bell found out that she fell in love with Jacob, the werewolf, but she did not hesitate to choose which guy she would choose. Eventually, the Cullens and the werewolves …show more content…
She fell in love with Edward Cullen, a vampire, and she always wanted to be a vampire like Edward ☺ (Simile), But when Alice reminds her that she is going to turn vampire shortly, Bella hesitated and worried: “How to say goodbye to Charlie and Renée…to Jacob…to being a human” (Meyer 269). With evidence showed, she is not ready to relinquish the characteristics of human and turn into a vampire. Bella feared that if she lost the heartbeat, soul, and temperature would she be the one she used to be. For instance, if she wants to turn into a vampire, she has to give up and stay away from her family and friends. Furthermore, Bella needs to start a new life in a different environment or culture to conceal her identity as a vampire. Because vampires’ appearance will not change over time, so Bella cannot let any acquaintance see her. Moreover, identity bothers her when she is with her human friends. Because Bella is dating with Edward, a vampire, information about vampire cannot be told, so it will be hard to feel affiliated with her friends. Therefore, she will have limited topics to talk with her friends so she might be disconnected with ordinary human life and feel lost in the identity as a human. Apparently, Isabella Swan has to solve the puzzle inside her to recognize her identity as a human and a …show more content…
By the end of Eclipse, Isabella Swan finally perceived her remarkable feeling toward Jacob, but she also noticed that it is insufficient to change anything. After Bella and Jacob kissed, she finally distinguished her feeling: “I was in love with him, but it was not enough to change anything; it was only enough to hurt us both more” (Meyer 528). Obviously, love affected Bella’s relationship between Jacob and her, and yet, she can only feel the pain of the relationship. However, she does not want to abdicate the painful relationship because she loves Jacob; therefore, Bella’s two-sided ☺ (hyphenated modifiers) love will eventually lacerate Edward and Jacob. Besides, love affected Bella’s family. She already accepted Edward’s marriage proposal, so she will conclusively turn into a vampire. Henceforth, she will lose her chance to be a human, and her family member will leave her one by one permanently. Consequently, she will not have an opportunity to see her father and mother again, and it will going to affect her love between her family. Definitely, love impacted Isabella Swan’s family, and her relationship
According to traditional folk-lore, a vampire is a human corpse resurrected from the dead, destined to wander the earth for eternity, sucking the blood from its victims during the night as they sleep peacefully. However due to interest exploding exponentially in recent years, obsessions have taken hold producing stories deviating from typical traditional vampires to a subdivision that has manifested its own diverse mythology. For example, when examining Bram Stoker’s notorious vampire, Dracula, it is clear Stoker embraces such disturbing fundamental features of a typical traditional vampire while incorporating a reclusive personality and unique superhuman abilities to enhance his character. However when observing Damon Salvatore, form the televised T.V show The Vampire Diaries, it is obvious L. J Smith re-vamped (no pun intended) the original version by providing Damon specific adaptations and in a sense, humanizing them. The glorified characters created by writers today have strayed from the original perceptions so much so, that the definition of what it means to be a vampire has changed entirely.
In the famous novel and movie series, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, an average teenage girl, Bella Swan, is forced to move from Arizona (where she lived with her mother) to Washington to start an almost new life with her father. She attends a small-town high school with mostly average people, besides one family, the Cullens. As Bella and Edward Cullen get closer, she uncovers a deep secret about him and his family. Their relationship faces many hard challenges and conflicts as the story develops. Both the novel and movie share very similar storylines, however, differ in many ways. From themes to author’s craft, or to relationships, these important parts of the story highlight the significant differences and similarities of Twilight.
Similar characteristics of vampires are evident in The Vampire Diaries, The Twilight Saga, and Stoker’s Dracula. Vampires in The Vampire Diaries become immortal, live, and die in similar ways to Stoker’s Dracula. In The Vampire Diaries, to become a vampire, a human has to die with vampire blood in their system. In the first episode, “The Return,” of season two. Caroline Forbes is in critical condition with her health and her friends, some of which are vampires, decide that to restore her health, she needs to ingest Damon, a vampire’s, blood. Katherine Pierce, the evil doppelganger of Elena, then murders Caroline to make her presence in the town known to the Salvatore Brothers. This ultimately makes Caroline a vampire. Life as an immortal being in The Vampire Diaries allows vampires to compel human minds, manipulating them. Katherine Pierce often used this technique to get what she wanted. Despite the longevity of life that has power perks, to kill the vampires, a wooden stake driven through the heart will suffice. These characteristics are apparent in Bram Stoker’s Dracula as well. Dracula compels Lucy to sleepwalk and come to him while unconscious during the night. He obtains the ability to compel or
Writer Natalie Wilson approaches the topic of race as what appears to be “unexamined” to many in the movie Twilight. In her article “Civilized Vampires Versus Savage Werewolves: Race and Ethnicity in the Twilight Series”, she points out many interesting details that support her opinion that Twilight depicts some sort of racial differences and biases amongst the characters. The movie is based on the storyline of diverse relationships between Bella Swan and a group of werewolves and vampires, including Jacob Black and Edward Cullen. The difference between the depiction of Edward and Jacob are very contrasting as Jacob is associated with savagery while Edward on the other hand is described as wealthy, talented, and smart. Jacob and his tribe are Native American and those who pertain to the Cullen family are white; some consider this
Mina experiences this towards the end of the novel when Jonathan, Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, Arthur, and Quincey figure out that Dracula is targeting Mina to be his next victim. Mina begins to have the same problems that Lucy had. For example, Mina would become ghostly pale like Lucy and she had the same pricked points on her neck that Lucy had as well. In contrast to Lucy, it seemed that Mina was having a better chance of survival because she was fighting and was not needing blood transfusions like Lucy did. Mina becoming another one of Dracula’s victims is another example of entrapment because it shows that MIna is unable to escape from the wrath of Dracula. Mina also knows that if Dracula does not die, she will become a vampire and that makes her fearful of what could happen. The mood is suspenseful because it makes the other characters and the audience wonder what could happen to
A month after the wedding, Bella calls her dad, Charlie Swan, and says that she is sick and quarantined. Charlie relays this to Billy Black, Jacob's dad, and Billy relays it to the pack. Jacob thinks that Bella is actually a vampire now and attempts to lead an assault on the Cullens for breaking the treaty. Sam, the alpha of the pack, forbids an assault on the Cullens without seeing Bella's immortality for himself. Jacob heads off on his own to avenge Bella. When he arrives, he discovers that Bella was sick, but it was from her pregnancy, not a disease. Jacob begs Bella to abort the fetus and save her life, but Bella is determined that she will live long enough to have the baby and be transformed into a vampire. Jacob runs off, and phases due to his anger. This accidentally reveals Bella's condition to the pack, and due to the lack of knowledge on human-vampire babies, the pack decides to kill the baby and Bella immediately. Jacob objects, and when Sam uses an alpha command to force Jacob into submission, Jacob accepts his bloodline as the true heir of the pack and breaks free of Sam's control. He then runs off to warn the Cullens of the pack's planned assault. However, while en route, Seth, one of the younger pack members, joins Jacob and makes note of the fact that neither of them can hear the others; they have formed their own pack. They warn the
They don’t want to be scared by the vampire, with its “dreadful looks and evil ways; they want a sexy, gorgeous, more human character that they can sympathize with”. Thus leading to many female vampires in various other stories that are shown kind hearted and loves humans. In spite of the fact that Dracula and Alucard both start a "family," the reasons they do as such are totally extraordinary. Throughout the years, subsequent to drinking both men and particularly ladies ' blood, Dracula frames a "family" of his own, three vampire spouses. Despite the fact that the lady vampires are enticing, shapely, and wonderful, Dracula indicates little enthusiasm for them and rather centers his considerations on Lucy and after that Mina. Not at all like Dracula, Alucard could be viewed as a family person, loyal to organization and training his subordinated and considering them
The vampire has transformed from being scary, old, unattractive, and unhuman, to being young, attractive, acts like a human, and fits in more. The traditional vampire style made a huge change when the soap opera show Dark Shadows made vampires question its nature. Since then, vampires have split into being more human-like and/or still stay true to the traditional vampire roots. Vampires have evolved into having love interests with humans and some even help fight real evils, other than themselves. In The Vampire Diaries, Stefan is more of the human-hero vampire, but he does struggle with his true nature. Damon at the beginning of the series does not have a conscious and does not really care for other humans since he drinks human blood. There is a power struggle between the two Salvatore brothers throughout the series. The question remains that will Damon show that deep down he has some sort of conscious or is he just pure evil? Julia Plec, executive producer/writer throws into this idea that, “We like to think the darker a character goes, the more we’ll get a window into where they have light and the opposite as well”
Mina is disgusted by the idea of the possible impurity that he has threatened her with while Lucy doesn’t seem to know what’s going on and is dependent on the men in the novel to protect her from the evil that surrounds her. Eventually Lucy gives into the sexual desire that Dracula represents in the novel and therefore becomes an evil sexual deviant with the power to seduce the men in the novel and continue the cycle of vampirism. Sexuality, one of the elements used to define the literary theory of transnationalism, during the Victorian Era was supposed to be suppressed by women. In Dracula, Lucy and Mina vary in holding up this expectation. Lucy succumbs to the temptations of the elements of sexuality in the novel whereas Mina remains pure until the very end. Because Lucy becomes a threat to the men, she must be destroyed. The men are disgusted when they first see the evil version of Lucy and Van Helsing depicts an threatening image by noting “The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness” (114). After the men destroy the Un-dead Lucy, she is restored to her original self and described by Van Helsing as once again “as we had seen her in her life, with her face of unequalled sweetness and purity” (117). Lucy’s restored innocence is a comfort to the men. Mina on the other hand is never considered to be impure, even after she
The genre of gothic text tends to emerge in times of great social stress or anxiety. For many years, authors have described vampires as wealthy, culturally sophisticated, aristocrats who live decadent lifestyles. Today however, average Americans are faced with hard economic times, and are struggling to provide basic necessities for their families. When watching the movie Twilight by Stephanie Meyers, several details in the story seems to enhance these harsh cultural anxieties of today’s social world, such as, the excessive lengths people will go to achieve financial stability, the lavish life style of the modern vampire, and how themes of the economic issues society is facing, impacts and stresses basic human instinct that society has an unlimited wants.
Vampires in Today's Society How would a vampire be described in today’s society? The author Abraham “Bram” Stoker is the creator of the novel Dracula. Bram Stoker was born in Dublin 1847 and Bram Stoker was born with an unknown Malady which made him not walk until the age of eight years old. The treatment Bram Stoker received from doctors was leeches, the leeches treatment was supposed to cleanse his blood. Bram Stoker then received the “University Athlete” and earns a BA in mathematics.
These novels tell the dark love story between Bella Swan, an average, somewhat shy high school student, and Edward Cullen, a mysterious and strong vampire. Rape culture is evident throughout these four novels. For example, when Bella’s best friend Jacob kisses her against her will, she tries to fight it and then gives up “acting on instinct…I opened my eyes and didn’t fight”. Charlie, Bella’s father, asked Jacob why Bella hit him, and when Jacob said “because I kissed her”, Charlie said “good job kid”. At another point in the novels, Bella admires the bruises on her skin after having sex with
In Case's article “Tasting the Original Apple,” it talks about the role that now the new woman has and how it comes into conflict with how men react towards it as stated “Dracula is often read as a largely reactionary response to the threat of autonomous female sexuality posed by the phenomenon of the "New Woman," with its anxieties about female sexuality being most clearly visible in Lucy Westenra's story. Particularly once she has been "vamped," Lucy's sexual assertiveness seems to link her with the New Woman. But Lucy's actions as a vampire, like those of the "awful women" (42) Jonathan encounters at Dracula's castle, perhaps owe less to the specific threat posed by the New Woman's insistence on sexual autonomy than to the ambivalences built into the model of Victorian womanhood from the start. Since ideal womanhood (and the ground of male desire) was characterized by a combination of total sexual purity and at least the potential for passionate devotion to a man, this model...
The first book, Twilight sets the stage for the audience by making the main character’s life seem plausible and as the series progress the protagonist’s life resembled fantasy more than reality. If the point of these books was to be an escape from reality it seemed distressing to see Bella Swan, the lead character, playing a nauseating female stereotype. Not only is the character actually nauseated by blood, she seemed modeled after a 1950s housewife. At nearly every mention or conversation with Charlie, Bella’s father, it was indicated that he could not cook for himself, “Charlie needs me. He's just all alone up there, and he can't cook at all.”[5] Even when Bella was on her death bed she worried about who would cook for her father. As Ward Cleaver from Leave it to Beaver said, “A woman’s place is in the home and as long as she is in the home she might as well be in the
The Twilight series is a bestselling series written by Stephanie Meyer that has captivated millions of teenage girls. Twilight diverges from the vampire lore quite a bit and contains very little information about any other supernatural beings. Most vampire stories stress that vampires are night dwellers; that they cannot remain “alive” when the sun rises. Nevertheless, Twilight ignores that known ...