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Books / Re: Meyer Stops writing next twilight book
« on: April 16, 2009, 09:50:12 PM »Those absolutist statements are in reference to the Cullen's, since they're the vampires that the reader really gets to know. Yeah, I know the Volturi and pretty much all the other vampires are evil. But the Cullen's are the main characters.My understanding was that most people (perhaps not you) were objecting to the fact that Meyer messed with the myth so much. My point was that her vampires DO possess the one most important characteristic of the myth - the desire to drink human blood. To me, the fact that the Cullens resist this desire is an interesting twist on that myth. Now, I'm no vampire expert, so there are probably plenty of other evil aspects to the folklore which Meyer casually ignores. But you can't say she threw ALL the evil out.
Resisting the urge to suck blood is not a flaw. It could be considered a flaw, if one of them gave into the impulse. But none of them do.Jasper does. Or at least he tries to, and is restrained by his family. All the other Cullens except Carlisle and Rosalie have also succumbed to the impulse, at some point in the past.
I can't think of a single flaw in the Cullens. They're perfect.Flaws and internal conflicts I see:
- Emmett is too fond of fighting and violence.
- Rosalie is vain and (at first) jealous of Edward's attention toward Bella.
- Alice is too fond of manipulating others. She also has a weakness for fashion and fast cars.
- Rosalie has not come to terms with her thwarted maternal instinct.
- Edward is tormented by the belief that his soul is condemned.
- All of them struggle with self-control, especially Jasper, as noted above. And while most of this struggle is off-screen, in the past, we do see a little of it at Bella's birthday party. We also see a good deal of Edward's bloodlust, both toward Bella in several places and toward her would-be-rapists in the first book.
- All of them have way too much fun killing and dismembering animals.
- All of them are prejudiced regarding the wolves, and they allow this prejudice to make them unreasonably hostile and antagonistic. (Of course the wolves share this flaw, in reverse.)
- All of them disregard the law when it suits their purposes (speed limits, fake IDs).
- All of them lie when they need to.