Twilight Research Paper
Over 6 million dollars in sales, the Twilight franchise is nothing short of successful. But what makes this series any different from the millions of romance novels you can buy at the dollar store? Author, Stephanie Meyers, developed a highly layered plot that dipped its fingers into multiple genres. By doing this, she broadened the spectrum for her projected audiences ten-fold. She includes elements of mystery, thriller, romance and fantasy into her novel. Twilight is the analogous love child of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire and Nicholas Spark’s The Notebook. However, Meyers does not just place a single conventional vampire at the center of her novel, instead, she placed an entire family of unconventional vampires. Although, like
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Perhaps what 6 million people fell in love with was not just the attractive vampires, but the roles they take as the “good guys.” Edward Cullen is an old soul in a captivating immortal body, which explains the attraction of older women. He upholds chivalry, chastity, and an “old fashion” respect for Bella as Edward calls it. Meyers is able to appeal to the hopeless romantics, whether it be the older women who remember the intensity of their first love or the prepubescent teens dreaming of what that first love will be like. The idea of love at first sight, “made for each other,” soulmates type of love is a dying breed, and Twilight delivers that type of love in a very unorthodox way, but delivers nonetheless. Readers are able to look past his borderline stalkerish behavior and admire the pinnacle of complete devotion he holds Bella on. Meyers fashions Bella into easy placeholder for all these readers to insert themselves into. Bella Swan is just an average high school student, her character is unoccupied by any outlandish characteristics, whose only talent is self-deprecation and sarcasm. Meyers intentionally models this vague character, even though she is the main character and narrator, to make her easily relatable, but not a notable heroine. A brave and bold heroine could make the reader second guess the possibility of them ever being Bella and make the fantasy of two
Perhaps what 6 million people fell in love with was not just the attractive vampires, but the roles they take as the “good guys.” Edward Cullen is an old soul in a captivating immortal body, which explains the attraction of older women. He upholds chivalry, chastity, and an “old fashion” respect for Bella as Edward calls it. Meyers is able to appeal to the hopeless romantics, whether it be the older women who remember the intensity of their first love or the prepubescent teens dreaming of what that first love will be like. The idea of love at first sight, “made for each other,” soulmates type of love is a dying breed, and Twilight delivers that type of love in a very unorthodox way, but delivers nonetheless. Readers are able to look past his borderline stalkerish behavior and admire the pinnacle of complete devotion he holds Bella on. Meyers fashions Bella into easy placeholder for all these readers to insert themselves into. Bella Swan is just an average high school student, her character is unoccupied by any outlandish characteristics, whose only talent is self-deprecation and sarcasm. Meyers intentionally models this vague character, even though she is the main character and narrator, to make her easily relatable, but not a notable heroine. A brave and bold heroine could make the reader second guess the possibility of them ever being Bella and make the fantasy of two