Creatures of the Night

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Anyone that has watched The Vampire Diaries and Twilight have noticed similarities and differences with the main women protagonists, love, supernatural powers, and craving of blood. In the Vampire Diaries people are introduced to Elena Gilbert a young outgoing teenaged girl. She has lived in Mystic Falls her entire life, unfortunately her parents are deceased. They passed away in a car accident while their vehicle sank in a nearby river. Elena had a normal life until it was interrupted by meeting Stefan Salvator a 165 year old vampire. Unlike the Vampire Diaries, Twilight has Bella Swan. She seems like an awkward shy teenager. Bella moved to Forks, Washington to have a better father-daughter relationship with her dad. Both Bella’s parents are divorce and share custody; which is why Bella had to move to Forks. Just like Elena met Stefan, Bella meets Edward Cullen the handsome intriguing 107 year old vampire.
In both these Vampire inspired movie and television show there is one common area. LOVE. The difference between Elena/Stefan and Edward/Bella’s romance is Elena, and Stefan are doppelgangers. They are a shadow self “a person who happens to be a supernatural double of a person that has lived before them” (The Vampire Diaries Wiki). This is a spell that bounds people that look identical to Stefan and Elena to be infatuated with one another. Unfortunately this is not “true love” as some people may say. Elena and Stefan feelings and attraction towards each other is not real. Under the Doppelganger spell Elena and Stefan believe they are each other’s match, but it is just the lie the spell cast upon them. Once the spell is broken Elena and Stefan are free to love whoever they want. On the other hand Edward and Bella’s romance is ...

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...ith Edward Bella’s boyfriend. Both these male vampires chose to become vegetarians due to feeling remorseful for killing innocent people.
“Mr. Sun, Sun. Mr. Golden Sun please shine down on me” (Barney). Both these sets of Vampires can agree that the Sun is not their best ally. In Twilight people can see how Edward is never present when Forks has a sunny day. This is what made Bella more curious to finding out what was happening to Edward. Together they go off to into the meadow, and Edward shows Bella why he is not able to be out in the sun. Bella witnesses Edward’s skin turn from human flesh into sparkling diamonds. Furthermore the Vampire diaries has a different approach to the Sun. Surprisingly Stefan and Damon’s skin does not sparkle but instead it burns. If any vampire were left in the Sun for a long period of time, they would have died and turned into ash.

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