So, I need to express and opinion and talk about something that puzzles me: Twilight is a love story. We all know this. It's about a girl who falls in love with a vampire. But honestly, the more classics I read, and I am fairly new to really understanding and LOVING the classics, to be quite honest, the more I think that Twilight actually sucks in its characterization and SMeyer got super lucky in her creation of Edward. Because really, it is HIM we are all in love with anyway. Not necessarily his perfection, there is that of course, but its about his IMperfections. He is a hateful creature, vile to his core and really, very very bad for little innocent Isabella Swan.
*But really, is she THAT innocent? She LOVES the book Wuthering Heights, after all. Does a young girl who reads like this and lives in her own world really act that way IRL and experience things as innocently as she does knowing what she knows of classic characters with all their foibles?
*That being said, why do we LOVE Edward? What is it about him, his character, his actions that we love? Is it his devotion to Isabella? Is it his turmoil? What is the perfect ratio that is Edward?
*Also, tell me about the classics you have read (or are readiong currently) that helped you come to the same conclusion I have come to or, as may be the case, the ones you have read that help you love SMeyer's work MORE?
I will answer below just as anyone else to each point I have brought up.
To quote the lovelies here:
LETTUCE DISCUSS.