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The novel Twilight spoke about a pair of hard couple. 17 year old Isabella Swan is a smart yet popular girl. Because of her mother's remarriage, she exiled herself to a remote town named Forks. In this town, she met a mysterious classmate named Edward Cullen, then she found out Edward came from a "vegetarian" vampire family. Bella's beauty attracts him and which makes him want to drink her blood, but at the same time suppresses his desire because he is deeply in love with her and wanted to protect her. The last part of the novel talked about Edward and his family fighting with the vampires that wanted to kill Bella. However, Bella knew what he is, and how dangerous it will be to be with him, but she is still uncontrollably in love with him.
2. Literature Review
Critics usually analyze Twilight series of novels from different perspectives. Zhang Peiqiong analyzed in his paper: Twilight although is a love story between a human and a vampire, actually said people. As the representative of the Twilight vampire, from the view of Freud's personality theory, Edward’s pain is mainly from the inner struggle and is the conflict among id, ego and superego. In the novel, there is a mix of significance to the reflection of religious culture and artistic appeal. In the face of a vampire role, the reader's psychology is complicated, the readers feel the vampires heart at the same time, will also along with the inner world of the vampire and project to itself. In the process of reading, the readers temporarily lost self, fear at the same time as if also get a sense of happiness for the time being.
Qin Jiaojiao said that Twilight is a story full of love, affection and friendship. We can feel their true friendship between friends, between family members support each other, rely on each other for lovers, and so on, this kind of true feelings between people, is as new wine in old bottles, but one that's still the flavor of the wine, just because of this constant emotion is the human eternal topic. The book broke the love novels of the original model. A bright, and has carried on the brand-new deduce the nature of love and read, and the language lively, is a good youth literature.
Combined with the perspective of cultural and cognitive, Liu Wei analyzed Twilight, the main plot and reflect the character and identity to build relationships with the metaphor and embodied in the works, with the help of theoretical analysis metaphor Edward Divided Self and body control itself and out of control, building conflict, the nature of the "I" and finally established the identity of the process. Pointed out that the theory and methods in the analysis of cognitive linguistics character's personality and identity have its own characteristics and advantages, which focus on this topic of cultural, literary and stylistic study is undoubtedly useful supplement.
Since the 20th century, female gothic research evolved and got spectacular. Female gothic as an independent branch of the Gothic genre, the female perspective introduced Gothic literature. As a female literary rookie Stephanie Meyer wrote Twilight vampire series of novels. The novel since the launch on the widely sought after and respected by the public. But as a popular novel, also caused controversy in all aspects. Today, domestic and scholarly articles on the work of very few. Some people think that the series of novels belong to the Gothic novel, inherited the tradition of the classic elements of the Gothic novel, showing the unique charm of Gothic characters in terms of shape and depict scenes of horror. Yang Xiaojun think Twilight has obvious female Gothic novel features. And very few people at home and abroad from the perspective of women on the Gothic novel Twilight conduct a complete analysis. So Yang Xiaojun from the perspective of female Gothic novel attempt to interpret the Twilight and then study its unique content and value. Key analysis and described the heroine multiple roles in the female Gothic novel: the leading, and the fear of salvation type. The second chapter is closed with female imagery and spatial characteristics of the Gothic happy ending to interpret its further application in the Twilight in. Thus a more profound understanding of Stephanie Meyer created based on the traditional female Gothic heroine of the new image, and the closed inner world of imagery and a happy ending in the true sense.