The primary focus in “Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs” by Sady Doyle is how young teen girls are unfairly treated for loving a vampire-romance series, Twilight Saga. In the article, Doyle lists Stephanie Meyer’s, the writer and producer of Twilight, accomplishments with her books and film. “Set the record for biggest opening weekend for a movie by a female director”(Doyle 281). The movie’s soundtracks sold millions of copies as for the New Moon soundtrack was expected to be one of the top selling albums of 2009. The book series and the movies were a success, yet those who've made it successful were mocked.
Twilight would be a way for teenage girls to get away from real life. Doyle quotes, “a place in the lives of adolescent girls, who often find actual teenage boys more intimidating than the fictional vampire variety” (281). She argues how male fantasies are nearly never criticized. She gives an example how Die Hard is not complex, but was not treated the same as Twilight. When David Slade was announced to direct the third film in the Twilight series, Eclipse, it was said to be “guy-friendly.” The books were not going to change its setting just because a male director was directing the movie. During the 2009 Comic-Con convention, people were complaining how
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Harold Bloom called the Harry Potter books “not well written.” Once the final three books of the series were released Times magazine book reviewer, Michiko Kakutani said it was “deeply rooted in traditional literature.” The Harry Potter fans, on the other hand, were not mistreated as much as the Twilight fans. Harry Potter’s books and movies attract both male and females. “Her books [J.K. Rowling] focused on a male hero and included lots of boy-friendly elements such as sports and warfare” (Doyle 282). Since a girl narrates Twilight, there will be more girl emotions throughout the booking causing boys not to be attracted to read the
It is well known that books read by adolescents are somewhat inappropriate in certain ways such as language and the types of actions done by the characters. Some books consist of drugs, sex, and violence which obviously isn’t very appropriate nor does it consist of positive values. It is easy to see why some books ar...
To begin with there are a lot of unique characters that make you want to keep reading. Duke is more feminine than other boys his age and his father harry does not approve of it. “When Duke was five years old, Harry began to worry that his son was exhibiting too many feminine tendencies. Duke was small for his age, he preferred dolls to guns and reading books to playing outdoors.” When Duke was younger he was more feminine than the other boys his age. He didn't care for the “boy” toys. Harry Duke’s father didn't like that. He tried everything he could to make his little boy more masculine but nothing worked. Harry also has a different personality. He is a weird man. “They didn't make girls like that whe...
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This essay explores the blurring of gender roles within Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Angela Carter’s The Lady of the House of Love, focusing on the presentation of a sexually assertive female and its threat to the patriarchal society, and the duality of the female characters as they are presented as enticing and thrilling, but also dangerous and somewhat repulsive.
The documentary that I viewed was called Dark Girls (Directors: Bill Duke & D. Channsin Berry, 2011). The focus was based on colorism in the African- American community and how it has impacted young girls and women. The directors provided a platform that explored the issue starting with the history of African- American culture down to the aspect of how we would need to begin to heal and overcome this prejudice.
The new sensation sweeping America these days is a series of books written by Stephanie Meyer. The series takes readers to a place where the old world and myths about vampires and werewolves are looked at completely different. The idea of werewolves being killed by silver bullets and vampires dying of holy water is simply not even thought of. As the series turns into major movies and vampire Edward is given competition by Jacob the infamous werewolf. Many people began choosing sides of whom they favored winning Bella’s heart. Which has left many people believing that Jacob should win instead of Edward.
‘To understand the chronicles they must be read as gay’ , at least this is the incredibly bold statement made by George Haggerty in his essay on Anne Rice and the Queering of Culture. There is no denying that Anne Rice’s Vampires have much to do with homosexuality and Haggerty’s highlighting this is in no way new criticism, but the claim that is must be read as gay is entirely dismissive of the many other sexual paradigms that exist within the collection.
Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles series have been stated by many various scholars that they represent less a dramatic shift in the portrayal of the vampire. Usually, the vampire – from early folklore to nineteenth-century pieces of literature – has been portrayed as a figure of fear, but it has been claimed by many to shift from a standard figure of fear to one of sympathy. Not only that, but it has also been argued that Rice's vampires are more of a continuation of nineteenth-century trends in vampire literature. While there are many levels of sympathy and moral ambiguity, a big one of those the concern and consideration of the public display of affection. Normally in vampire narratives, such as Dracula, male vampires only make advances towards females.
Coming from an avid Twilight series consumer, I can justly say Twilight is child’s play compared to True Blood. True Blood is a creation of book from author, Charlaine Harris. In True Blood, Vampires and other super natural creatures not only roam around town, but live and interact as humans in southern Louisiana. Vampires are fighting in a society for their rights which cohere are absurd to think of vampires on the level of rights as minorities. Sookie is the main character and a mixture between a fairy and a human. She open- mindedly understands the vampires and is open to amalgamation due to her how capabilities (she has the ability to hear people’s thoughts) In the Louisiana southern town of Bon Temps, a waitress named Sookie Stackhouse
Throughout time Vampire fiction has served as a great resource for dealing with our own feelings of what can be fearful. As of recently, vampires are viewed as sparkly sex icons, less fearful, and more lustful. This lust is not just toward heterosexual vampires looking for thirst, but homosexual as well. Starting with undertones in the 18th century with Polidori and Byrons’ relationship to Carmilla finally leading to the 20th century relationships in Interview with the Vampire and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Homoeroticism has been a huge factor when it comes to vampirism and sexuality, are authors purposefully making these vampires homosexual? Or are mainstream viewers just reading too much into the undertones. The nature of a vampire’s sexuality is an interesting characteristic of the vampire's freedom from social norms and restrictions. For instance, it’s obvious the contemporary vampire is an individual of many appetites, and that undoubtedly includes their sexual appetites. The vampire's sexual escapades are not exclusive to just members of the opposite sex, but of the same sex as well.
As the saying goes, “Women can do everything Men can do.” In the Gothic Novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, there is a constant theme of sexuality, from both male and females in society. In the Victorian era, the roles of male and females have caused a lot of tension. After reading Dracula, some would argue the roles men and women hold in society. As mentioned in Dr. Seward’s Dairy from Val Halsing., “Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina! She has man’s brain—a brain that a man should have were he much gifted—and a woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good combination” (Stoker and Hindle, 2003 250). A women’s mind is not the always the first thing on a males mind. Some would overlook what a woman really has to offer.
“I’d never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love seems like a good way to go.” Those are the famous words that started it all, The Twilight Saga Phenomenon. The Twilight Saga consists of four novels: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. Stephanie Meyer, author of the popular saga, majored in English literature at Brigham Young University. After graduating in 1997, Meyer chose to be a stay-at-home mother to her three sons. The concept of the whole saga came to her in a dream one night. When she woke up, she took a pen and paper and documented everything that occurred in her dream. She then based all four novels on that dream because she had a gut feeling that it was going to make a great story. Stephenie Meyer entertains her readers with engrossing plots that are about eternal love, sacrifice, and choices, which hold suspense through accessible language.
This fetish has been manifested in the movies I view, the television shows I watch, and the books I read. When my obsession with reading is crossed with my obsession with monsters, the result is a bookshelf containing more vampire novels than most people would consider healthy. I have discovered that every vampire novel varies vastly; no two books are ever alike. For example, the Twilight Series, the Anita Blake Series and the Vampire Chronicles Series have different legends and lore, different relationships between vampires and society, and different genres, theme, and purpose; this array of novels displays most clearly the range of audience the vampire genre can cater. The Twilight series is a bestselling series written by Stephanie Meyer that has captivated millions of teenage girls.
Regarding the story of characters and interpersonal communication attributes movies; especially those with a strong theme of love have become a mainstream culture and a household commodity for analysis. The movie twilight was recently adapted from being a novel to a film in the year 2005 under the same title with the original idea from Stephanie Meyer. Through the 17 year old girl’s narration, the movie espouses a love story about a forbidden love (Blasingame et al. 50). The forbidden love is between the two protagonists, Edward and Bella, where their relationship depicts varied interpersonal characteristics. Through their interactions, the two protagonists develop among each other both positive and negative connotations of interpersonal communication.
By reading vampire fiction, people recklessly drop into the abyss of darkness and magic that cannot be explained and understood in natural or scientific way. This supernatural atmosphere attracts the readers and makes them to wish to see it by their own eyes even if it frightens. Supernatural is something that is missing in people`s everyday life and people desperately try to get it at least from the books.