And more things. Since the series' debut in , multitudes of thinkers and scholars have claimed to know the real, profound meaning behind Stephenie Meyer's famous vampire-romance novel series. This tends to happen sometimes when books ignite widespread consumption and discussion: Just run a quick Google search on "The Great Gatsby is a story about" if you need further proof.
But the degree to which Twilight has been analyzed, re-analyzed, reframed, and close-read makes it something of a lit-crit Choose Your Own Adventure story. So because Breaking Dawn—Part 2 , the final film in the mega-selling Twilight movie franchise, comes to theaters this weekend, it might be wise to decide just what strain of liberal arts-y interpretation you subscribe to. Take your pick: Twilight and its sequels are one big story about It's arguably the most notorious complaint about Twilight : That meek, indecisive teenager Bella Swan may be something of a sketchy role model for its largely teenage, largely female fan base.
For instance, in , David Cox of the Guardian expressed some concern in a story called amazingly "Twilight: the franchise that ate feminism. Bella's fate isn't only dispiriting; it's also deceptive. On the whole, beguilement by a teenage bad boy, however courtly his manner, doesn't lead to eternal love; nor is self-abnegation a reliable route to bliss. It's therefore understandable that some have questioned the merits of Twilight 's message for womankind. That was, of course, not the end of that conversation.
Critics, fans, and feminist thinkers have continued to squabble among themselves over how to conceive of Twilight 's all-consuming love story between Edward and Bella—as a cautionary tale about the dangers of unbalanced relationships, or as a commentary on the virtue of an unswervingly committed partner. Later on, though, Jeffers asserts that Bella might be a somewhat feminist figure after all, in that she "rejects the violence inherent in a patriarchal system" because she "refuses to allow Edward and Jacob to remain rivals, and she engineers circumstances that require them to put their differences aside and work together.
Meanwhile, just a few pages away in the same volume, Lori Branch's "Carlisle's Cross: Locating the Post-Secular Gothic" cast the protagonist as a "post-feminist" heroine who revealed a few unforeseen effects of the feminist movement: "The remarkable phenomenon here is the recognition in Meyer's fiction Bella's popularity as superstar Gothic heroine reveals precisely that we as a culture have already travelled a feminist road, and that it has left apparently not a few readers with very particular unfulfilled longings and misgivings.
When creator Stephenie Meyer was asked whether the heroine she'd created was a feminist or an anti-feminist one, she responded on her website with the following:. Other thinkers have identified elements of the Twilight series as clear allegories—and apologias—for the Mormon faith, to which Meyer belongs. Carlisle Cullen was born in the mids, the same period when historic Mormonism was born in Europe. He became a vampire when he was bitten but not slain by a weakened vampire. His heroic choice to turn away from vampirism and to eat animal rather than human food turns his eyes golden rather than blood red.
Over the next two centuries, he learns all he can about medicine and in the mids becomes a doctor, saving rather than taking human lives. Brooke and by having Carlisle take up medical practice in the s, the same time as Joseph Smith's "restoration" of the gospel in America.
All three books paint the Mormon faith as inherently bloodthirsty, violent, secretive, and abusive to women and non-believers. The Twilight novels, especially Breaking Dawn , can be understood as a response to the challenge they posed to Mormon believers like Mrs.
In brief, Meyer was inspired to write works in which she addresses and resolves in archetypal story the criticisms being made of Mormonism by atheists and non-believing gentiles. Twilight is essentially an allegory of one gentile seeker's coming to the fullness of Latter-day Saint faith and life. Bella inherited her mother's perceptiveness to some degree, as she was able to guess Edward was a mind reader, the first human to do so. However, she was not able to guess that Edward was in love with her.
After becoming a vampire, Bella explains that she has a clearer view of the world, and was impressed with her new family's and her husband's physical appearances. As a newborn vampire, she demonstrates a very high level of self-control; being able to run away from the scent of human blood on her first hunting trip, and later, restrain herself from attacking her father; this is unusual for newborn vampires, because their state as new vampires brings an overwhelming thirst for blood, and thus they usually have a hard time controlling their urges and desires.
This led her to believe that her self-control was her gift when it was really a production of her mental preparation and maturity. Eleazar corrects this when he discovers her true gift. Bella appears to be talented at being a vampire, as she learns to control her new abilities and urges very quickly, even saying that she felt like she was born to be one, and is very graceful in her new state. Several people, including Aro , Felix , and Edward, have commented that immortality fits her perfectly.
In Breaking Dawn , Bella can detect minor changes in Renesmee 's physical appearance, such as her hair growing a couple of millimeters. Bella's gift allows her to shield herself and those around her from supernatural powers that affect the mind such as Edward's and Aro 's telepathy, Jane 's illusionary pain, Alec 's sensory paralysis, Eleazar 's ability identification, Kate 's electric shock, and Zafrina 's illusion , which explains why most of their powers were useless against her when she was still human.
She had displayed this power since before the beginning of the Twilight series, and by becoming a vampire, her shield was greatly intensified in strength. It has been speculated in the first three novels about what her gift might be after she was changed. This power comes from her subconscious desire to protect her mind above everything else, and as long as she holds on to that desire, it makes the shield difficult to extract.
Her father Charlie shows a less developed form of this shield; indeed, Edward finds him difficult to read, but not completely closed off like Bella. In Breaking Dawn , Bella uses her shielding power as a giant dome to protect her family and friends when the Volturi attempt to make a move on them, when she was enraged by Edward facing danger alone and she is forced to stay behind, with an antagonistic smile emitted from Jane to push her anger further. Freed from her desire to protect herself, she is able to shape her shield in any way she wills it; such as creating a giant protective bubble, or wrapping it around her targets like plastic bags.
When she shields others, her mind will form an extra shield to protect herself. Those she shields will also become a part of her, allowing her to feel them in range without having to look. Bella can also remove her shield completely and allow vampires' mental powers work on her if she so chooses, though it is more difficult than pushing it out.
Though her shield is powerful, it has many limitations: it has no effect against a physical attack, which makes it easy for an enemy to invade her shield and use his power on those she protects.
Additionally, it has no effect against Alice 's power of subjective precognition , Jasper 's ability to control her mood , Benjamin 's power to control the elements of nature , and Marcus 's power to detect relationships, since her shield can only block psychic powers that are connected to the mind.
The only person who is truly immune to her shield is Renesmee , who is capable of penetrating it. Aro, the leader of the Volturi who "collects" vampires with useful talents, was so intrigued by Bella's ability to block mental powers as a human, that he twice offered her a place among his guard.
She refused both times. Because of her shield, Bella is considered one of the most powerful vampires alive. She is also the granddaughter of Geoffrey and Helen Swan , as well as Marie Higgenbotham and her ex-husband. Bella's husband: Edward Cullen. Edward Cullen is Bella's husband. He is a vampire, who has chosen to drink animal blood as a substitute like the rest of the Cullen family. When Edward and Bella first realize their strong feelings for each other, Bella loves him unconditionally, believing Edward to be absolutely perfect, and does not believe or consider herself as being worthy of his love.
Edward first became fascinated with her due to his inability to read her mind, but her blood smells unbearably enticing to him that he finds it hard to be in her presence. Bella subsequently is very fascinated with his physique, and skills, and the purity of his heart. She often describes him as "God-like" in physical appearance, comparing him to the Greek hero Adonis , and hopes that by becoming a vampire, she will become beautiful and graceful like him and the rest of his family.
Edward disapproves of this greatly and always tries to reassure her that she is more than worthy of his love, and that she has his heart forever. Bella sometimes thinks of Edward as an angel. Edward proposes to Bella in New Moon and she eventually accepts in Eclipse , looking down on the prospect of marriage but not entirely opposed to it. As part of a deal with Edward, she promises to marry him if he promises to make love with her and then change her into a vampire.
She sees this as the only part of the marriage to look forward to. During their honeymoon on a private island, Isle Esme , Edward and Bella consummate their marriage and conceive a vampire-human hybrid child. During the birth, complications occur and Edward, after delivering their baby via caesarean section, injects Bella with his venom by injecting it straight into her heart and biting her to speed up the process, thereby transforming her into a vampire and saving her life.
After Bella's transformation, she and Edward become equals on all levels and can experience a vastly easier life together, though they find it very hard to satisfy their sexual desire for each other. At the end of Breaking Dawn , Bella learns how to deactivate her mental shield allowing Edward to read her thoughts for the first time, which brings them even closer together.
At the series end, Edward and Bella live happily together, presumably forever, as husband and wife with their daughter, Renesmee. Bella's daughter: Renesmee Cullen. Renesmee Cullen is Bella and Edward's biological daughter, conceived on Isle Esme in Breaking Dawn and was born almost one month later.
According to myths and legends on the south, the mothers of this particular kind of children have never survived the pregnancy.
Knowing this, Edward tries to convince Bella to save her life by having an abortion, but Bella refuses, as she has come to love the child. To protect the baby, she has Rosalie be her guardian, and Emmett and Esme side with her. Edward's hatred ceases when he hears the child's thoughts to find that she already loves her parents, and that she has been hurting her mother by accident, and tries hard not to hurt her again.
Bella originally believed that she was carrying a boy and named her "E. After a painful childbirth and transformation, Bella is taken to hunt before she can meet her daughter, because she has blood of her own and Bella cannot guarantee not to hurt her. After she was done, she finally reunites with her daughter without hurting her in any way.
She later learns that Jacob has imprinted on Renesmee, which angers her. She later accepts it when she learns Jacob's imprinting is involuntary, and that Renesmee loves Jacob as well, though she finds this annoying. She tries to attack Jacob when she finds out that he has nicknamed her "Nessie", which is nicknamed after the Loch Ness Monster.
Though everyone else in her family has grown used to the nickname, she continues refers to her by her real name. She ultimately gives in after three months. Renesmee inheriting a reversed counterpart of her father's power can implant images and thoughts in her mind without hindrance by the shield, and it has been speculated that she has inherited a reversed counterpart of her mother's gift as well.
In addition, she has also inherited Bella's chocolate brown eyes. Before the arrival and judgment of the Volturi , Bella gives Renesmee a golden locket inscribed with the words "plus que ma propre vie" which means "more than my own life" in French.
Bella puts her love for her daughter on an equal level as her love to Edward: a different kind of love, but just as intense. Bella's best friend: Jacob Black. He falls in love with Bella after some time and spends a lot of time with her during the period of Edward's absence. While Edward was away, Bella found that Jacob's presence soothed the "hole" in her chest that resulted from Edward leaving her.
Being around Jacob brought a measure of happiness back to Bella's life, though he was unable to replace Edward. Bella felt that Jacob was a good friend, and that he was her own "personal little sun" which would beam happiness in every direction wherever he went. When Jacob underwent his transformation into a werewolf, it put a distance in their friendship.
In Eclipse , Jacob acts upon his romantic feelings for Bella, and tries to convince her to leave Edward for him. Jacob thinks that, since he is more human than Edward, he will be safer for Bella to have a relationship with. Edward sees this, but is still willing to fight for her. Jacob forcefully kisses Bella, resulting in her punching him, breaking her hand and almost ending their friendship. Sometime later, Jacob overhears that Bella and Edward are engaged and makes Bella kiss him, saying that if she doesn't he will get himself killed.
She does so, and realizes that she is in love with Jacob. But Bella soon realizes that her love for Jacob is not as strong as her love for Edward. She later tells Jacob that she has chosen Edward over him, breaking his heart.
A devastated Jacob remains at odds with Edward and Bella after this. Eventually, Jacob imprints on Edward and Bella's daughter, Renesmee, ridding him of his heartache for Bella. Bella and Edward are furious and, after hearing that he nicknamed her Nessie, after the Loch Ness Monster, Bella loses control of her anger and tries to kill Jacob. But she soon regains self-control, and Bella, Edward, and Jacob make peace. She comes to accept Jacob's imprinting on Renesmee during the Volturi crisis, and they remain best friends.
In addition, Jacob continues to think of her as just Bella rather than a vampire with a powerful gift. In many ways, she doesn't feel fit in with anyone, including her mom. At a young age, Bella held more responsibilities for the house than her mother.
Her career as a kindergarten teacher was the one thing that Bella respected. She visits her mother in Eclipse after Edward talks her into using the plane tickets she'd got from his parents, and finds herself in torment as her time as a human is shortening by the day.
She supports her daughter's choice to marry young wholeheartedly when she first tells her about the engagement, despite her great dislike of young marriage, and attends her daughter's wedding. Also, she combines her name with Esme's, naming her newborn granddaughter "Renesmee", in honor of her mother and mother-in-law. Bella's father: Charlie Swan. Charlie Swan is Bella's father. Bella's relationship with her father is also very odd. Even at a young age it became clear that Bella hated Forks, and when she visited Charlie would take her fishing, which Bella also hated.
Bella moved to Forks to live with her father in Twilight to give her mother space with her new husband, Phil. She finds it much easier to live with her father, because he respects her privacy.
Even though they hardly talk, the two really care for each other. Her father is very protective and therefore very suspicious of Edward Cullen, for having caused great emotional pain to his daughter. Among other " Bella moments " he has shown great concern for her when she has been in the hospital for her broken leg, in Twilight , and a check-up. Bella fully reciprocates. After Bella became a vampire and mothered a half-vampire half-human child, Jacob told Charlie about the mystical world to keep the Cullens in Forks.
Though Charlie was shocked by the sudden information, he adjusts to it very quickly and demands to be told as little as possible about the supernatural in order to keep Bella and her in-law family in Forks. Renesmee's middle-name of "Carlie" is a portmanteau of both Carlisle and Charlie. It is very likely that Bella inherited her personality and power from Charlie, who has a similar, though less powerful mental defense.
Bella's adoptive father-in-law: Carlisle Cullen. Carlisle Cullen is Bella's adoptive father-in-law. Like Esme, he was worried for Edward's sake about lacking happiness, therefore he is very grateful to Bella when she brought him to life. From then on, he thinks of her as part of the family and welcomes her with his heart. In New Moon , he tells Bella of Edward's last moments as a human, and later agrees to let Bella join their family as a vampire in order to protect Edward from committing suicide.
When she became pregnant with Renesmee, Carlisle and Edward wanted to abort the child for her health, but Esme, Emmett and Rosalie siding with Bella compels him to think otherwise. In the movie of New Moon , Bella comforts him that he cannot be damned to be a vampire.
Renesmee's middle name of "Carlie" is derived from a combination of Carlisle and Charlie to honor them. Bella's adoptive mother-in-law: Esme Cullen. Esme Cullen is Bella's adoptive mother-in-law. Esme loved Edward so much that she wished for him to find happiness that he was lacking. When he fell in love with Bella, Esme discovered the change in him and was grateful to her for it. Despite her family's partial protests, she wholeheartedly embraces Bella as one of them.
Bella combines her name with her mother's to name her daughter "Renesmee" in honor of her mother and Esme. Bella's adoptive sister-in-law: Alice Cullen. Alice Cullen is Bella's adoptive sister-in-law. Aside from Edward and Renesmee, she is the closest to her in the Cullen family. Alice has been eager to become her friend after she saw their united future; she eventually gets her wish when Bella becomes romantically involved with Edward.
Alice likes to dress her up and provide any kind of fashion to make her look pretty, although Bella dislikes the idea of fashion. Bella allows Alice to arrange her wedding after her endless pleading and made her maid of honor, although she retains veto-power on the guest list. When the Volturi prepare to end their family, Alice runs away with Jasper but leaves clues for Bella to find a lawyer named J.
Jenks to help her arrange legal paperwork for Renesmee to escape. Alice and Jasper return with a half-vampire, half-human hybrid named Nahuel. They arrive just on time to prevent the confrontation from turning into an ugly fight and save their family from slaughter. That same night, Bella angrily confronts her for leaving her cryptic clues that caused her endless mental pain.
Bella's adoptive sister-in-law: Rosalie Hale. Rosalie Hale is Bella's adoptive sister-in-law. Rosalie initially disliked her for the attention she was receiving from Edward, and later for wanting to become a vampire; something she would never have considered if she'd had a choice.
Her dislike of Bella began to fade a little bit after she risked her life to save Edward from committing suicide, but she still wanted her to remain human.
Rosalie tells her life story to Bella in Eclipse , hoping to make her consider her options before making her decision. Although she still chose immortality over mortality, Rosalie volunteered to help do Bella's hair on her wedding day.
When Bella was pregnant with Renesmee, she asked Rosalie to be her guardian, knowing that she would side with her. During pregnancy, Rosalie cared for and protected Bella, though she mostly focused on the baby.
The author of the theory, posted on Reddit , shares that being a succubus could explain why Bella was so attractive to humans, werewolves, and vampires, despite being described as an average girl. Adrienne Tyler is a features writer for Screen Rant. She is an Audiovisual Communication graduate who wanted to be a filmmaker, but life had other plans and it turned out great. Adrienne is very into films and she enjoys a bit of everything: from superhero films to heartbreaking dramas, to low-budget horror films.
Two weeks later after returning from their honeymoon, Lucina finds out that she is pregnant. Lucina soon gave birth to her son Lucien Summers. Five years later since Lucien was born, he starts school like the other Cullens when they moved to Montana.
He meets a human girl name Kourtney Collier and the two became friends later meeting Skai , a half-human half-vampire. The Cullens meet Skai and learns about him as he learns about them and he's been with them since although he never lives with them despite the offer. Two weeks after that, Kourtney found out about the supernatural when she overheard Lucien and Skai of their conversation. Skai developed an idea for the world when he finds out the Cullens became the new Volturi. He believes they have the power to make a difference.
With their gifts, they would be the most powerful coven to have ever existed. When Bella and the Cullens told Lucien about it, he refused to believe them siding with Skai and ran away. After Lucas regained himself, he, Bella and the Cullens found Skai who was attempting to kill Lucien, but was stopped by them with Lucas taking his gift back from Skai.
Kourtney was dead when they arrived caused by Skai shooting Lucas's aura sphere and Skai escaped swearing revenge on Lucien and they haven't seen him since. Six years since the event, Bella and the Cullens see how depressed Lucien is since losing his friends. Bella hears about Lucien developing feelings for Luna Snow in Minnesota.
During the story, the Cullens were ambushed by metal vampires , gifted ones that are alive and dead. Bella recognizes a few familiar faces including James. The Cullens then hear from the metal vampires being spoken by someone that he will have all the Cullens gifts leaving them confused on who's behind it.
Lucien introduces the Cullens to Luna since they became a couple and knowing about the supernatural and Bella accepts her into the family seeing how happy Lucien is. Days later, they returned only to be under the control by Skai who attacked the Cullens and taking every one of them including Bella. However after Luna stops Skai from killing Lucien, the sword was destroyed releasing Bella and the Cullens and after changing Luna into a vampire, they destroyed Skai and returned home.
Luna becomes a vampire and three years later after her high school graduation, she proposes to Lucien who proposes to her making them engaged later getting married. A year after defeating Skai, Damien was in a car chase lead by Owen Decker until he got t-boned by him. Evan changes Damien into a vampire and becomes part of the family where he proposes to Sarah and later got married.
Bella attended high school again with Korrina Snow who is the imprint of Evan and she gets strangled to death by Randy Fowler until Edward and Lucas stops him. Evan changes Korrina when she was about to die and she becomes a vampire later getting married to Evan. For all of Bella's physical appearance in the Twilight Saga, visit her page in the wiki website. For all of Bella's personality and traits in the Twilight Saga, visit her page in the wiki website.
For all of Bella's powers and abilities in the Twilight Saga, visit her page in the wiki website. For all of Bella's relationships with the characters in the Twilight Saga, visit her page in the wiki website. This will talk about his relationships with the new characters. Nothing much was shown about how close Bella and Evan are but the two do care about each other.
Bella is one of the people that calls Evan out by his middle name whenever he misbehaves, mostly on Sarah. Bella's granddaughter-in-law: Korrina Snow. Korrina Snow is Bella's granddaughter-in-law. Not much interaction was shown but the two appear to be close. Korrina wishes though she had a shield like Bella. Bella's granddaughter: Sarah Black. Nothing much was shown about how close Bella and Sarah are but the two do care about each other. Bella's grandson-in-law: Damien Grant.
Once Damien was brought into the supernatural and Sarah imprinting on him, Damien officially meets the Cullens where Bella welcomes him with open arms.
One month before graduating high school, Damien proposes to Sarah and the two later got married during college thus making Bella his grandmother-in-law. Bella's adoptive brother: Lucas Stone. Lucas Stone is Bella's adoptive brother.
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