Analysis Of The Twilight Saga

The Twilight Saga, by Stephanie Meyer, has been viewed as a narrative of either teenage lust or romantic love, characterized by Bella, an introverted seventeen-year-old girl, and Edward Cullen, a mysterious vampire who goes to Bella’s high school. The book series stole the hearts of teenage girls across the world and even expanded upon those horizons to reach an audience so wide that the book series became a household name. Still, no one has credited the Cullen’s in the way that they display family loyalty, self-control, and altruism among themselves. Critics have endlessly discussed the love and lust, of the two individuals and are fascinated by the ability of the Twilight Saga to fall not just in the genre of romance, but also in the supernatural/

Maple emphasizes how deep and rare the love between the two adolescents is, and I would argue that human’s innate desire for this kind of love is one of the reasons why Twilight became so widespread. However, I argue that another basis for the obsession of the books is simply because the Cullen’s, the family in which Edward belongs to, represent vampires in a contrasting light than most vampire architypes represent. Although most analysts hone in on the fact that Meyer characterizes the vampires more romantically than any other vampire depiction at that point in history, I argue, based on evidence from the book series, that The Cullen’s are not given the full picture they

The way in which The Cullen’s slowly formed a family, is by Carlisle’s last resort of turning them into vampires (Meyer). When a patient is on their death bed, and he believes they are not ready to die, he bites them and turns them into a vampire. Therefore, The Cullen family is made up of mortals from all different time periods who were then converted to vampires by Carlisle. Carlisle is said to have “adopted” all his children, and so they all have a sense of gratitude towards Carlisle for what he did for them. Even at Bella’s first real introduction to Edward’s family, for the most part, they approve of her to date Edward. In Twilight, Edward says to Bella “They are happy to see me happy” (Meyer, Twilight, 322) which demonstrates that they truly do care for one another even if it goes against the family norms. The few siblings that are not fond of their relationship in the beginning do so because it stems from a place of protection towards Edward, which still displays loyalty. Another instance that specifically highlights family loyalty is when Edward rebelled from Carlisle’s “no human flesh diet,” and devoured humans