Stephenie Meyer

In his 1897 gothic novel, Dracula, Bram Stoker defined the modern form of the vampire. His character, Dracula remained popular through the ages, being one of the most popular adaptation source in history. Dracula has created an extraordinary vampire subculture, and an enormous amount of films have been made that feature Count Dracula as it’s main antagonist, or protagonist. However, most adaptations do not include the major characters from the novel, focusing only on the now traditional…

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla Laura, the narrator in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla, fits into the appearance of a typical female victim in vampire literature. Long before she meets the titular character, she had a dream or rather a nightmare about a woman bearing a striking resemblance to Carmilla, who sang her fangs into the maiden’s body. Despite the fear, she helps the woman after the accident and invites her in. Laura easily and without much thought happens to trust…

Twilight directed by Hadwicke is a movie about a girl named Bella who meets a vampire named Edward. She is thrown into a new environment and begins new discoveries. Her life would never be the same after she falls in love with a vampire. A simple movie with a simple concept. The underlying theme to movie is we should not live simple lives and we should reach for something more, something above normal. Showing maybe living forever and becoming a vampire isn’t what anyone really wants. In the…

“One for the road” By Stephen King, Gerard Lumely is a example of the impulsive one stereotype because of his lack of thinking. He doesn’t think before he does something. In fact that’s what had gotten him killed in the first place. Lumely is a really careless character in this story. The story “One for the road” is about this guy (Gerard Lumely) has gotten stuck in a snowstorm in maine.Gerard comes to a bar, and asks for help to come find his missing wife and…

In today’s modern society women’s literature seems to be fascinated with the romance of abnormal couples. As we all know the popular book series of Twilight sparked the world’s fascination of vampires and the romance of a mortal teenage woman and a forever young teenage vampire. Throughout the books it follows the semi-love triangle of three teens Bella, Edward, Jacob and forbidden love. For three out of the four books it is written through the thoughts and emotions of Bella point of view and…

Marissa Meyer Marissa meyer is an up and coming author that published her first book "Cinder" in 2012, which kicked off her aspiring Lunar series. Four years later she finished the 5th and final book in the Lunar series. This series was a hit and gained her her mass amounts of notoriety as a newbie in the novelist community. Marisa's writing style in the lunar series is very unique, being a sci-fi based fairy tale stories. The themes in her Lunar series also follow an underdog trend, where…

evoking, blood thirsty, irresistible terrifying creatures. Creatures that have lost all connection to their humanity, set free from mortal flesh and gifted with eternal youth and primal lust. Christine Seifert tells us “Twilights” author Stephanie Meyers has created this erotic desire surrounding abstinence. We follow a short summarization of Bella and Edwards love story without a sex life. This dark romantic novel consists of Edwards stalker like infatuation with Bella, the struggle both…

Sady Doyle wrote an article, November 19,2009, about twilight titled, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs: the unwarranted backlash against fans of the world's most popular vampire-romance series.” The purpose of this work is to inform the reader on the unwarranted backlash on fans of the twilight series. Doyle go all over the place when it comes to her topics. She begins to talk about the weaknesses, next she goes on to the sales of the twilight series, then she goes to the fans of twilight, and…

Certain aspects of the myth, such as Persephone falling in love with Hades, and the affects Persephone’s being in the underworld has on her mother are being rewritten in new ways and incorporate in popular novels such as the Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyers. This paper will look at the Twilight Sega and how the myth of Persephone has influenced the overall story. Many times when reading any of these novels or watching a movie one does not realize that it is the same story that has been told for…

Summary: In “(Un)safe Sex: Romancing the Vampire,” professional copywriter Karen Backstein, explores the interest of vampire movies in the 21st century and changes made to keep the genre relevant. Backstein believes society and humankind are evolving and rapidly changing, vampires are also evolving so that they can survive and continue to interest people in popular culture. Modern vampires, Backstein notes, work to control their impulses so as not to harm the ‘heroine’, who is strong,…