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Domestic Abuse In Stephanie Meyer's The Twilight Trilogy

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Almost ten years ago, Twilight swept the nation as one of the top movies at its debut. Due to the unprecedented success of the first movie, producers continued the bring the trilogy to the big screen, and added fuel to the fire of teen obsession with the forbidden love at the center of it all. Fans of the series started out with an innocent fascination with the story, but pop culture analysis's agree that what started out as innocent has lasting effects that are far from it.
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Stephanie Meyer must have been doing something right when she wrote the Twilight Trilogy, because it captured readers attention and it had many readers, who were not often found reading books. Part of the reason that she had so many readers …show more content…

In the story, Edward is a brooding and rude character who belittles Bella, his love interest on a frequent basis, all under the basis that he loves her and that it is just a part of his fascination for her. His fascination turns into more of an unhealthy fixation, rather than a healthy fascination, when he does things such as sneaking into her house at night to stare and her and watch her sleep. Part of the gifts that vampires wield is the ability to read minds, and he is dumbfounded at the realization that he is not able to know her thoughts before she is ready to tell him, and that he loses a part of his control over her. In the book, he evens admits that originally that was where his fascination with her started, and that glamorization of the idea that he is only with her to try and learn how to control her teaches girls that their worth to men is all in the challenge to dominate them. It takes the love out of the ideal relationship that our society aspires to have and instead exchanges it for dominance being the goal of a perfect relationship. It is dangerous for young women to see this girl being verbally abused and berated by a man who would love nothing more than to hurt her wellbeing, because it turns of the warning lights that should naturally pop up in a women’s mind when she feels herself

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