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Scary Creatures of the Night: Vampires From the Twilight World
0It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to decode the compelling success of Stephanie Meyer’s vampire series, Twilight. If 17 million printed copies and a movie adaptation are any indication of its influence in young adult literature, then Twilight is redefining this genre through giving it an edge like no other.
Twilight may well owe its success to the intriguing and gothic romance between a normal teenager, Bella Swan, and an intoxicatingly charismatic vampire, Edward Cullen. Just like Romeo and Juliet, the tie binding Cullen and Swan are even more strengthened by the obstacles they had to face due to the opposing existence they tread—Swan as a mortal, and Cullen as a vampire, one of the scary creatures of the night known to have roamed the world of the living for centuries.
Vampires and other scary creatures of the night have been a well-known character since the early 1800s. These dark creatures possess an eerie combination of beauty and lethal danger. Both repulsive and attractive, vampires are a borderline between monstrosity and humanity. Capitalizing on these scary creatures’ grim and fascinating characteristics, Stephanie Meyer has made a world like no other—A world where like between a mere mortal and an enticingly perilous scary creature of the night is within the bounds of possibility and reality.
Instead of the stereotypical vampires replicated over and over throughout the years, the book has introduced us to a honestly different set of vampires. Rather than being described as pure evil, we are welcomed into the world of conscience-ridden vampires that could choose to feast on human blood or jeopardize their existence by denying their nature.
Edward Cullen
Edward Cullen (Edward Anthony Cullen) was born in June 20, 1901. He was saved by Dr. Carlisle Cullen to grant Elizabeth’s (Edward’s mother) dying wish. But, the only way to do so is to transform him into a vampire—a scary creature of the night that doesn’t eat, sleep, breathe or age. Frozen in his 17-year ancient body, Edward has survived the century by feasting on animal blood.
He instantly fell in like with Bella as soon as she arrives in Forks. Fighting the urge to kill her because of his nature and wanting to like her, he faces a bout with himself nearly throughout the tale.
Jacob Black
He is werewolf who is later revealed to be a shape-shifter as he doesn’t transform on a full moon. Being Bella’s best friend, he’s determined to protect and stand by her no matter what.
Carlisle Cullen
Having brought compassion from his human life, Carlisle Cullen spent most of his early years as a vampire in perfecting his resistance to human bloodlust and becoming a doctor. In the book, we are told of Carlisle’s like affair with Esme and how he transformed her into a vampire to save her life. He also transformed Rosalie Hale and Emmett into vampires.
Esme Cullen
She is the wife of Carlisle and adoptive mother to Edward, Rosalie, Alice and Emmett. She has no special power, but has a strong ability to like passionately. She committed suicide because she couldn’t bear the pain of her son’s death. It was in this condition when she was transformed into a vampire by Carlisle.
Rosalie Hale
Gorgeous and alluring, Rosalie Hale is one of these scary creatures of the night adopted by Carlisle and Esme. In the book, we see her as a repulsive character for always undermining Bella. But in the latter chapters, we find that the reason behind such callous behavior is her insecurity towards Bella Swan’s mortality. Wanting to be mortal herself, Rosalie tries to convince Bella to stay as she is and not transform as a vampire.
Emmett Cullen
His curls and innocent appearance reminded Rosalie of her dead son. Because of this, she chose to take Emmett back to her father to transform him into a vampire. Emmett is married to Rosalie Hale.
Alice Cullen
This petite vampire with a graceful gait has a special ability to see the outcome of a choice once it is made. She also uses this ability to help Bella to surpass the dangers that await her.
When she was still a mere mortal, she was sent into an asylum for having premonitions. She later learned that she was transformed into a vampire to protect her from another vampire that haunts her.
Jasper Hale
He was transformed into a scary creature of the night when he was 20 and soon developed the ability to manipulate the emotions of people around him. Due to his past, where he was able to feed on humans whenever he chose, Jasper lacks strong self-control to feast on human blood. In addition, his body is covered with crescent-shaped scars, after the many years of fighting and training newborn vampires.
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A Twilight Reverie: Creatures of the Night and Edward Cullen
0Twilight is what you get when you place a drop-dead gorgeous blood-sucking vampire and other creatures of the night into the mixture of teenage drama. With fans swooning and everyone raving about Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, the novel has been at par with the massive sales that the Harry Potter series is getting. If Stephanie Meyer is luckier, she might even surpass J.K. Rowling with more sales and movie profits from her vampire series…Or maybe not.
Dominating the Young Adult Genre
Twilight, a hit teen vampire series has been regarded as one of the best-selling novels by the New York Times. With 17 million books in print, the vampire flick has everyone talking. Above anything else, the novel owes its popularity on its metaphorical take on teenage dilemmas and greatly developed characters that nearly stay right to the turf of possibility. Like all other vampire stints seen on movies, Twilight capitalizes on people’s unwavering fascination about vampires and their immortal existence. But what really separates Twilight among so many vampire films and novels produced in the last century?
Bella Swan and Edward Cullen’s Like Affair
Twilight has a different take on the usual vampire-entangled like tale that we are often bombarded with. It centers on the intriguing interaction between a normal teenager, Bella Swan, and a gorgeous vampire, Edward Cullen. Creatures of the night such as Edward are damned entities that are perilous for any human to be acquainted with.
Like Collides with Playful Fate
Bella likes Edward and Edwards feels the same way about her. But the very nature of Edward as a vampire makes it hard to suppress his blood lust over her. To make matters worse for both of them, Bella accepts the danger but not the thought of losing him. The danger of losing her by his own hands is more than he could bear, but as the ancient bards said, like becomes stronger in the face of danger.
Vampires in the World of Twilight
Vampires from Twilight have deviated a lot from characteristics that other literary vampires have. They are not harmed in any way by garlic, crucifix, water or sunlight. Vampires in the Twilight world don’t sleep in coffins (in fact, they don’t need to sleep at all), don’t die through wooden stakes and even show up in pictures and have reflections.
Instead of stereotyping these creatures of the night, Stephanie Meyer gave them distinct characteristics that include physical appearance, hunting styles and legends that truly set these creatures of the night one step ahead of all other fictional vampires we come to know.
Cullen and the rest of the creatures of the night from the novel are described to be extremely handsome and have angelic features despite being godforsaken souls. Their eyes, a noteworthy addition to their features, change colors according to how blood thirsty they are. When full, their eyes are golden and as bright as topaz but turn coal black when deprived of blood. Likewise, you can tell whether a vampire feeds on human blood or not through the eye color. Those who feast on human blood have a sinister red or burgundy color to their orbs.
Given that they have superhuman abilities which include superhuman talents, vampires from Twilight appear to be much more appealing and enticing to mortals like Bella Swan. Without the need to sleep nor breathe, these creatures of the night don’t age at all even with the constant flow of time around them.
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Halloween Strange Creatures Costume: the Twilight Vampires
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Are you still clueless about what costume to wear this Halloween? Still stressing out about what Halloween weird creatures to don? Instead of looking like Halloween because of stress and costume troubles, spice up the season with Twilight characters as costumes!
To help you out of your dilemma, I’ve come up with a wise list of Halloween weird creatures from the well-known Twilight series that you can rock this Halloween.
Twilight Vampires
Who says you need to go traditional about Halloween weird creatures like vampires? Since Twilight came into the picture, vampires have never been so smoldering hot. Sport the look by wearing gold or yellow contacts and those sexy incisors are a must-have if you really want to get the look right.
Edward Cullen
Place on a rock-and-roll vibe by wearing your casual jeans and t-shirt that scream the Edward Cullen style. To end the look, match it with bronze hair color, smear a small red on your lips, and make sure that you have a glowing alabaster-like look to your skin. On the other hand, if you want to look like a blood-deprived vampire, wear coal black contacts to recreate the look.
Rosalie Hale
Shock everyone with your electrifying presence as Rosalie Hale by wearing a long straight blonde wig (or a curly one if you like). Don a light beige ruffle baby-doll top and layer it with a white lacy top. Pull the Cullen crest by copying the real thing using hard clay or by just wearing a skull necklace to get the look. Accessorize with red lipstick and huge round-loop earrings to accentuate the look. Oh, and don’t forget the bright yellow contacts!
Alice Cullen
As one of Halloween weird creatures, Alice Cullen might be your small stuff, but as they always say, fantastic things come in small packages. Be Alice Cullen by wearing a black wig with a pixie-cut styling. Since she has one of the edgiest fashion sense among the Cullens, you can never go incorrect with a small black dress layered with a red cropped jacket. Wear black leather boots, choker and bangles that really yell rockstar. To really nail the look, wear red lipstick and gold or yellow contact lenses.
Jasper Hale
This tall and lean vampire is a stunner with his disheveled honey blond hair and regal stance. Sport the look by wearing a white long-sleeve shirt, black pants and black leather shoes. Then top the look with gold contact lenses and really pale skin to get the effect. Match the outfit with confidence and attitude and you are ready to rock the house as Jasper Hale.
In this day and age, originality is the name of the game. Who says you need to be like everyone else to make Halloween memorable? All you need are the right set of confidence to rock your costume, a small creativity and a fact or two about these Twilight vampires. Through this Twilight costume tips, become Halloween weird creatures all out to have fun.
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