Beauty And The Beautiful Beast : A Discussion Of Gender Roles And Abusive Relationships

Bella Swan is a 17-year-old girl who has lived in Phoenix, Arizona, with her mother, her entire life. After her mother remarries, she moves to Forks, Washington, to live with her father. Although she is very shy, she seems to make friends very easily at her new high school. On her first day of school, she takes a seat next to a handsome, yet extremely reserved boy named Edward Cullen. As soon as Bella sits down, Edward gets up and leaves, trying his hardest to avoid her. Bella finds his behavior completely strange, but eventually Edward warms up to her, and the two begin a close friendship. One day, Bella is walking through the school parking lot. All of a sudden, a car pulls up out of nowhere, heading straight for Bella. Edward suddenly appears, stopping the car with little force, using only one hand, and completely amazing Bella with his incredible strength and speed. Still curious, Bella asks a family friend, Jacob, about Edward and the rest of the Cullen family. Jacob reveals that the Cullen family members are all seen as outcasts, as everyone believes them to be vampires. Bella ends up questioning

Another important scene in the book is when Bella goes to Port Angeles with Jessica and Angela to help them pick out dresses and to also get a new book. She gets lost on her way back to meet her friends for dinner. Lost with four men are following her, Edward comes out of nowhere to rescue her. He fishtails around a corner and stops with the passenger door open next to Bella. He tells her to talk about something random to distract him from going back to kill Bella’s stalkers. After he rescues Bella, he takes her to dinner, where Bella interrogates Edward about how he knew where she was. The car ride home from Port Angeles is another scene where the movie’s timeline differs from the book. During the car ride Bella tells Edward her theories about him (Meyers 161). Her theories are built on the story she learned from an old tribe legend Jacob told her when they meet on the beach, revealing that she knows Edward is a vampire (183). This begins a new period in their relationship, where they trade off days asking one another questions about everything. The next day, they go on a hike up the mountain to Edward’s favorite spot, the meadow. He shows Bella why he and his family cannot be seen in the sunlight, being that his skin sparkles in the light. Edward then shows her what he is capable by using his

If there is one thing that has not changed in the past one hundred years it is the populations love for a thrilling, eerie story; including those about vampires. However, what has changed in the last one hundred years is cultural appropriation and the idea of vampirism itself. So despite being written in two entirely different centuries with two entirely different vampire etiquettes, the novels Twilight by young adult author Stephanie Meyer and Dracula by 19th century gothic author Bram Stoker, both use of the matter of sexuality through characters actions and to help develop the good vs. evil based plot throughout the stories.

There are many types of abusive relationships, and the novel Beautiful and Dark covers a variety of them. The novel shows how one abusive person can affect everyone in the physical and mental abuse, child and spousal abuse, and the kind of people who abuses everyone around them, including friends and coworkers. This paper will cover how Rosa Montero brings the issue of abuse to the reader and forces us to think about the effects.

Oddly enough Bella and Edward’s skin tones are both significantly white and they are both drawn in by this whiteness. When Bella is new at the school many of the boys are interested in her but she only shows interest in Edward when he walks through the doors (“Who is that?” ). In addition, Edward has been at the school for a bit but has shown no interest in anyone (“no one here is good enough for him” ). However, when Edward sees Bella he falls in love automatically. Like many heroes, Edward is what one considers very masculine; he is both fast and strong. Bella was about to be hit by a vehicle but Edward “got to [her] so fast, he was nowhere near [her]...he stopped the van from crushing [her]” and left a large dent. Moreover, Edward is rich, worldly, generous, intelligent (he has been around for centuries), he is a saviour, he is significantly protective of Bella (“I feel very protective of you” ), and he is sensitive towards Bella, he is the dream man/boy who many people fantasize over. On the other hand, because Edward possesses all these characteristics, the heroine must lack these qualities and as a result Bella is small, clumsy, delicate, vulnerable, soft, fragile (Edward could lose control and kill her by accident ), desperate, uncoordinated (slips on ice ), less smart (“if you were smart you’d stay away from me... what if I’m the bad guy?” ) “In the end a good-looking boyfriend remains

Throughout this journal, Bella Swan can be characterized as popular and confused. First off, Bella Swan can be characterized as popular. For example, Edward wants to stay away from her after the first day sitting together. The narrator says, “But Edward Cullen’s back stiffened, and he turned slowly to glare at me…He turned back to the receptionist” (Meyer 27). Overall, Edward wants to change his schedule because he wants to avoid having same class with Bella. He wants to stay away from Bella before he made the wrong choice, so that can be an evidence of Bella being popular. Another example, Mike’s action, such as fighting with Edward, for taking her to the nurse. “‘I was taking her to the nurse,’ Mike explained…‘I’m supposed to do it’” (Meyer

Initially, one of the reasons why the statement from page 71, mentioned by Edward Cullen in New Moon, represents such an important line throughout the novel, is by illustrating how Edward sacrifices a lot for love. In which, the statement comes to be, (on page 71), stated by Edward in New Moon, “I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. I will be as if I’d never existed.” Nonetheless, further towards the novel helps to illustrate the huge sacrifices from Edward’s character due to love. In reference to the novel named, New Moon, on page 70, Edward states, “Of course, I’ll always love you…in a way. But what happened the other night made me realize that it’s time for a change. Because I’m…tired of pretending to be something I’m not, Bella. I am not human.” While Edward continues to tell Bella about his absence, on page 72,

Attraction to the unknown is in the blood of all humans. We yell at the screen of a television when a character follows the monster into the closet but it is only in our nature to crave fear. Twilight is obviously more of a romance than a horror however the monsters in the story still lure us in. The inner violence that vampires represent through their illicit abuse brings a darker tone to romance, like a thorn rose you can never let go of.  The Twilight series has gained great acknowledgment as a worldwide phenomenon.  Fans would spend hours outside movie theatre walls waiting to get front seat tickets to see the movies all dressed in Team Edward or Team Jacob shirts. In the article “Crash and Squirm” Billson

Modern vampire interpretations are supposed to be relatable or desired, they are no longer supposed to be feared. Stephanie Meyer’s book series “Twilight” is one of the most popular teenage vampire interpretations. The vampire characters within the movie are metaphors for the teenager.

In all four works, Bella Swan in the protagonist. The story is centered around her life. All four books are written in her perspective. Meyer usually tends to write all her stories as first person narratives, including books that are not related to the Twilight Saga like The Host. When Meyer writes, she becomes completely engrossed in the characters. The main reason why she writes is because of the characters she creates. She envisions them in her brain. She talks to them all day, and they talk back. Coming up with the perfect names for the two main characters was a very tough process. She wanted a name that was popular decades ago, but at the same time, she wanted a name that was romantic for the vampire. Since Meyer grew up reading Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen, she used the characters Mr. Ferrars and Mr. Rochester from their works as an inspiration; thus leading her to choose the name Edward. After coming up with the names for the twosome, and was still in the process of creating their story, they would constantly talk to her. She heard their voices all day, so Meyer would

In the book Twilight New Moon Bella is worried that she has grown another year, making her to be older than Edward Cullen, her boyfriend. Bella does not know that Edward is a human vampire. He stopped counting his age when he turned 17. After school Bella agrees to go to the house of Edward to enjoy her birthday, but this is because she watches a movie about Romeo and Juliet during class today at school.

Heathcliff marries Isabella not for love but revenge, to torture Catherine and Edgar. This is not wholly different from the relationships in Twilight. Bella is a simple minded girl who becomes infatuated with Edward, a century old vampire who feeds on animal blood. As with Edgar being thrown in to complicate things, in comes Jacob Black, a shape-shifting Native American. He is in love with Bella and pursues her endlessly starting in New Moon and continuing into Eclipse and the first two thirds of Breaking Dawn. This only ends when Bella gives birth to her daughter, Renesmee. Upon sight of the newborn, Jacob imprints on her, effectively linking himself to the child in a relationship that will become romantic at some point in the rather near future. To summarize, there is a woman obsessed with one man, but marries another and a girl who marries a man who sees her as revenge in Wuthering Heights. In the Twilight saga we have two men in love with one simple girl and a seventeen year old boy involved with a baby. All the while these couples are doing nothing but inflicting pain upon themselves and the people they are involved with.

Twilight, is a movie known by many people, directed by Catherine Hardwicke in 2008. Twilight is just the first of many movies in the series, “The Twilight Saga”. Isabella “Bella” Swan (Kristen Stewart), the main character, is a teenage girl, she is moving from her loved home in sunny and warm Arizona with her mom, to Forks, a always rainy and dreary small town in the state of Washington to live with her father. When she goes to school she meets Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) a vampire, when she first sees him she thinks something is different but something about him is attractive to him. Edward and Bella have never talked to each other but the director shows the viewer the awkward tension the characters are feeling.

Gender stereotypes surface from an early age, from the toys we’re told to play with as children to the type of behaviors we’re encouraged to display. These stereotypes paint an over generalized picture of the population to which they pertain to. They can be very damaging to a person especially when they are imposed on people who fall outside of the norm of the stereotype. One stereotype for example, is that men do not face rape or other domestic violence.

Welcome to my blog, Perfect Love. Throughout my blog posts, I will discuss my personal experience with an abusive relationship, how to realize that you are in an abusive relationship, and how to leave. Aside from using my own personal experiences, I will also add credible sources to my posts.