Persuasive Cullen Vampire
There is no doubt that the barrage of horror movies over the years as caught the attention of humanity, young and old. Movies about monsters so inhuman so beastly that they make us shake with terror, but our minds spark with an interest that we didn’t even know we had. One such monster is the vampire. The vampire has been portrayed for centuries as a blood-sucking, soulless and ruthless killer. A vampire has no other desire than to obtain it’s most base desires. This being human blood. A vampire feeds on human blood and is shown through art and film to be an intimate and almost sexual activity. This is what makes vampires the perfect monstrous representation of the id within each human being. So, what is it when we make something that
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While vampires are representative of a human's id the Cullen’s in this film restrain themselves from what they want. They do not consume human blood though everything in their biology is telling them to hunt. This id repression is prominently present roughly eleven minutes into the film as Bella enters her biology class that she has with Edward. While talking to her teachers she stands in front of a conveniently placed fan that then blows her scent right in Edward’s face. His immediate response is to tense up, get a terror stricken look on his face, and cover his nose and mouth quickly with his hands. This continues as she sits beside him and he moves as far as he possibly can away from her. His reaction of hiding himself from her scent is his way of trying his hardest to keep himself from fulfilling the desires he has. He wants to kill her, to drink her blood and being that close to her is driving him mad with the want, the need. This is the function of the id. To tell a person what they want. In this case the id is who Edward is; he lives for the desire by pure design, yet, here he holds back. This is of critical importance in the Cullen clan. They try to maintain a level of self control no other vampire has dreamed of; no matter how hard it may be for them. Supplying an image of a vampire trying to suppress their base urges gives the Cullen’s the veil of an assumed ego. Since a human being is mostly ego this would now make the id, vampires, something normal and relatable. Even more human like is the fact that sometimes they cannot hold
While vampires are representative of a human's id the Cullen’s in this film restrain themselves from what they want. They do not consume human blood though everything in their biology is telling them to hunt. This id repression is prominently present roughly eleven minutes into the film as Bella enters her biology class that she has with Edward. While talking to her teachers she stands in front of a conveniently placed fan that then blows her scent right in Edward’s face. His immediate response is to tense up, get a terror stricken look on his face, and cover his nose and mouth quickly with his hands. This continues as she sits beside him and he moves as far as he possibly can away from her. His reaction of hiding himself from her scent is his way of trying his hardest to keep himself from fulfilling the desires he has. He wants to kill her, to drink her blood and being that close to her is driving him mad with the want, the need. This is the function of the id. To tell a person what they want. In this case the id is who Edward is; he lives for the desire by pure design, yet, here he holds back. This is of critical importance in the Cullen clan. They try to maintain a level of self control no other vampire has dreamed of; no matter how hard it may be for them. Supplying an image of a vampire trying to suppress their base urges gives the Cullen’s the veil of an assumed ego. Since a human being is mostly ego this would now make the id, vampires, something normal and relatable. Even more human like is the fact that sometimes they cannot hold