Zulimar Carpio
Eng 102-0841
Research Paper
Break down of Bella’s Archetypes From Twilight’s Saga Breaking Dawn
When you think of Twilight the first thing that pops into your head is a teenage romance story between a girl and a vampire. But it’s way more than that. It’s obvious that Edward and Bella are lovers but the structure of the entire books isn’t just based on love there’s a lot more symbols and details that comes from the stories these books are trying to tell. Symbols like the settings of where different action’s in the books take place, or flash backs from the past, life after death, details like this is what creates so many different types of archetypes in each of the characters specifically with Bella’s character her being one of the main characters in this Saga.
In the first book Twilight Bella starts off by staying with her Dad Charlie in forks California for a temporary vacation. The settings in Forks was dark, misty, rained a lot barley any sun. Bella’s parents are separated and Bella’s Mother Renee was remarried living in Phoenix one of the sunniest parts of Florida. Bella’s a lot older since she last saw her farther so it isn’t exactly a normal Farther and Daughter relationship, there isn’t any real relationship between them at all you can tell they both have extreme father daughter love for one another deeply but there was so much distance between them that there’s no way of expressing their emotions which make them so alike in so many ways but their distant relationship doesn’t allow them to express that. Bella & Charlie’s ‘’ farther daughter’’ relationship is more of an award type there’s a lot of silence they hardly say much typically short conversations. It’s weird because they communicate through silence. So Bella eventually stays long enough to start high school in forks where she eventually meets her mate Edward Cullen which is where the beginning of the cinimax in this love story starts. Through Twilight Bella’s character comes off very vulnerable and scared, talks to herself like if she were invisible to the real world. Bella’s not your regular teenage girl everything about her makes her completely weird and abnormal which makes her so perfect in the afterlife. She just comes across really antisocial, wears dark clothes, always looks tired, never does her hair, and looks over all depressed. Doesn’t have the typical popular girl role with a bunch of girlfriends or goes on dates Bella has barley any type of social life very closed person she lives in her inside of her own thoughts most of the time. Bella’s thoughts are lay w huge role in the book since Bella’s role is so private and quite her thoughts is what helps the reader understand how she feels and what she’s going through when. Which is also an important factor because One of Edward’s powers is he can read minds Bella’s mind is so powerful that even as a human Edward can’t read her mind and its one reasons that draws such a intimate connection between the two. Bella’s thoughts change throughout the books as the story gets more intense but in the beginning of her finding herself her thoughts are basically about how she just doesn’t fit in with the world and her feelings towards her dad and her broken family, which later her thoughts become about finding her meaning in life once she falls in love with Edward. Towards the end of twilight Bella’s vulnerabilities and fear is what almost gets her killed in the end and throughout the books her thoughts and insecurities over power her in a lot of ways making her the victim. All of these details and bits of peace’s is what introduces Bella’s character in the beginning of the Twilight Saga as ‘’The orphan’’. How she comes across in the beginning as a girl coming from a broken home, with a lot of vulnerabilities perfectly describes this archetype.
Towards the ending of the Saga Bella discovers her purpose when she falls in love with Edward. Bella feels she has to become a Vampire that after life is her purpose of living. The Love between Edward and Bella is so fascinating and deep because it’s like the popular love story where the girl is in love with a guy but loving the guy is forbidden making the girl crave for the love even more eventually making the girl sacrifice anything to save their love. Bella having to make the choice of staying alive or transforming puts a lot of pressure on her. In the process of that one of Bella’s main concerns is the safety of her and her love ones because every time she’s decides to stay with Edward the vampire while she’s still human and having a human dad she’s risking the lives of not only herself, Edward, and her Dad but everyone around her.
In the Twilight Breaking Dawn Saga there’s this huge and powerful group of all vampires called the Volturi and the Volturi are seen as what we would look at it like the law enforcement of all ‘’cold ones’’/Vampires but the twisted side to the Volturi is that their secretly and non-secretly out to gather the strongest group of all cold ones/vampires and become the most powerful rulers. The Volturi already being the strongest, most powerful group around one of their laws is that a human must never know of the cold ones secret. Once the Volturi finds out of the love affair Between Bella & Edward they demand Edward to kill Bella unless he turns her into a Vampire if no they will destroy he whole Cullen family and Bella. Which than becomes a major part in the book the Volturi is a big part of the history of the cold ones they’ve wanted Edward to join them for quite some decades because of Edwards magnificent powers so once the Volturi become of aware of what’s happening it puts Bella and Edward in a fight against the most powerful group of all Vampire’s/Cold ones. But then there’s another twist where Bella’s best friend is a Werewolf who’s in war with the Cold Ones/ Vampires and desparetly inlove with Bella as well. So that just adds onto the already complicated situation. Edward loves Bella so much he doesn’t want to force her into turning into a Vampire where Bella feels if she doesn’t turn into a vampire she’s just going to get everybody killed in her mind she already knows she was disten to be with Edward and that turning into a vampire was the only way. With Bella being human it kept making her whole surrounding vulnerable between other enemy vampire’s. This love story gets so crazy that Bella once In beginning was being looked at as a weakness of the bunch ends up becoming the strongest who has what it takes to step up and take the sacrifices needed to be taken to save the lives of her and her loved ones turning her into the ’’Destroyer’’ who would do anything to protect the ones she love.
Many of the things that makes Bella so amazingly unique in this book is how she starts off as a nobody with troubles and no meaning than ends up being the piece of the puzzle that changes the revolution of vampires and wear wolves forever. The way Bella & Jacob/Werewolf becomes best friends is because Jacobs Dad and Charlie are longtime friends. When Bella first moves into Folks Jacob comes by and she has a little moment with Jacob where they reminisce when they were kids, which eventually turns into an unbreakable bond. Jacob finds out more about his werewolf heritage after reconnecting with Bella. Bella is the one starts this amazing revolution against Vampire’s, Werewolf’s, & Humans. From the moment she comes to folks she’s destined to change these two worlds and she’s not even aware of it.
Towards the ending of the books Bella & Edward gets married, jacbos Flee’s because he feels he lost his love and cant stand the thought of her turning trying to save the life of her baby who in Jacbs eyes he sees as a monster. That’s when the trickness gets you because Bella gets pregnet from Edward still being human. Now in this world of vampires ,vampire/moral babies are the most dangerous and the most powerful. Bella is forced to turn after she refeses to kill her child and dies giving birth to her daughter Renesme. Edward is forced to do what he never wanted to do and that was change Bella he wanted to keep her human as long as he could. But Bella being who she is again would rather loose her life to give her daughter a fair chance at one. This is where all of the craziness starts spirals out of hand because now Edwards family ‘’ The Cullens’’ have to fight against the Werewolves & the Vultori who both want to destroy the baby in fear of what the baby is capable of not knowing Bella’s daughter is a powerful mix of both Edwards immortal powers and her Mothers human traits making her very strong warm , kind , and super mature. What finally brings the Vampire’s and werewolves together is when Jacob imprints on Renesme (Bella’s daughter). Making it Jacobs job as a werewolf trait to love, protect her , and grow old with her forever. So what started off as a love affair against Edward, Bella, & Jacob turns into this crazy scenario where he ends up with Bellas & Edwards only daughter which still works out because it brings them all together and starts a new generaion of love amonstg humans and vampire’s, werewolf’s & half mortal half vampiers. Now while all of this is going about the Volturi is out to dsroy Bella’s entire family. Puts Bella’s gaurds up where she knows shes not the vunrable girl that started off in the beginning of the book, bellas stronger now is well aware of her great powers and again is willing to do anything to protect everything she stands for. Eventually Bella’s finds away to protect her family still avoiding a war but knowing with time a war will happen and knowing she will do anything she has to. Transformed Bella is a ‘’ Warrior’’
So here we had an orphan who lost doesn’t have any meaning till she finds herself becoming a destroyer for the ones she loves. Who later comes out the strongest on top although she started off unaware of how strong and powerful she truly is. Making her the warrior she never thought she was capable of being. One of the reasons why I love Twilight so much isn’t because it’s a typical love affair is everything this love affair is based on.
Eng 102-0841
Research Paper
Break down of Bella’s Archetypes From Twilight’s Saga Breaking Dawn
When you think of Twilight the first thing that pops into your head is a teenage romance story between a girl and a vampire. But it’s way more than that. It’s obvious that Edward and Bella are lovers but the structure of the entire books isn’t just based on love there’s a lot more symbols and details that comes from the stories these books are trying to tell. Symbols like the settings of where different action’s in the books take place, or flash backs from the past, life after death, details like this is what creates so many different types of archetypes in each of the characters specifically with Bella’s character her being one of the main characters in this Saga.
In the first book Twilight Bella starts off by staying with her Dad Charlie in forks California for a temporary vacation. The settings in Forks was dark, misty, rained a lot barley any sun. Bella’s parents are separated and Bella’s Mother Renee was remarried living in Phoenix one of the sunniest parts of Florida. Bella’s a lot older since she last saw her farther so it isn’t exactly a normal Farther and Daughter relationship, there isn’t any real relationship between them at all you can tell they both have extreme father daughter love for one another deeply but there was so much distance between them that there’s no way of expressing their emotions which make them so alike in so many ways but their distant relationship doesn’t allow them to express that. Bella & Charlie’s ‘’ farther daughter’’ relationship is more of an award type there’s a lot of silence they hardly say much typically short conversations. It’s weird because they communicate through silence. So Bella eventually stays long enough to start high school in forks where she eventually meets her mate Edward Cullen which is where the beginning of the cinimax in this love story starts. Through Twilight Bella’s character comes off very vulnerable and scared, talks to herself like if she were invisible to the real world. Bella’s not your regular teenage girl everything about her makes her completely weird and abnormal which makes her so perfect in the afterlife. She just comes across really antisocial, wears dark clothes, always looks tired, never does her hair, and looks over all depressed. Doesn’t have the typical popular girl role with a bunch of girlfriends or goes on dates Bella has barley any type of social life very closed person she lives in her inside of her own thoughts most of the time. Bella’s thoughts are lay w huge role in the book since Bella’s role is so private and quite her thoughts is what helps the reader understand how she feels and what she’s going through when. Which is also an important factor because One of Edward’s powers is he can read minds Bella’s mind is so powerful that even as a human Edward can’t read her mind and its one reasons that draws such a intimate connection between the two. Bella’s thoughts change throughout the books as the story gets more intense but in the beginning of her finding herself her thoughts are basically about how she just doesn’t fit in with the world and her feelings towards her dad and her broken family, which later her thoughts become about finding her meaning in life once she falls in love with Edward. Towards the end of twilight Bella’s vulnerabilities and fear is what almost gets her killed in the end and throughout the books her thoughts and insecurities over power her in a lot of ways making her the victim. All of these details and bits of peace’s is what introduces Bella’s character in the beginning of the Twilight Saga as ‘’The orphan’’. How she comes across in the beginning as a girl coming from a broken home, with a lot of vulnerabilities perfectly describes this archetype.
Towards the ending of the Saga Bella discovers her purpose when she falls in love with Edward. Bella feels she has to become a Vampire that after life is her purpose of living. The Love between Edward and Bella is so fascinating and deep because it’s like the popular love story where the girl is in love with a guy but loving the guy is forbidden making the girl crave for the love even more eventually making the girl sacrifice anything to save their love. Bella having to make the choice of staying alive or transforming puts a lot of pressure on her. In the process of that one of Bella’s main concerns is the safety of her and her love ones because every time she’s decides to stay with Edward the vampire while she’s still human and having a human dad she’s risking the lives of not only herself, Edward, and her Dad but everyone around her.
In the Twilight Breaking Dawn Saga there’s this huge and powerful group of all vampires called the Volturi and the Volturi are seen as what we would look at it like the law enforcement of all ‘’cold ones’’/Vampires but the twisted side to the Volturi is that their secretly and non-secretly out to gather the strongest group of all cold ones/vampires and become the most powerful rulers. The Volturi already being the strongest, most powerful group around one of their laws is that a human must never know of the cold ones secret. Once the Volturi finds out of the love affair Between Bella & Edward they demand Edward to kill Bella unless he turns her into a Vampire if no they will destroy he whole Cullen family and Bella. Which than becomes a major part in the book the Volturi is a big part of the history of the cold ones they’ve wanted Edward to join them for quite some decades because of Edwards magnificent powers so once the Volturi become of aware of what’s happening it puts Bella and Edward in a fight against the most powerful group of all Vampire’s/Cold ones. But then there’s another twist where Bella’s best friend is a Werewolf who’s in war with the Cold Ones/ Vampires and desparetly inlove with Bella as well. So that just adds onto the already complicated situation. Edward loves Bella so much he doesn’t want to force her into turning into a Vampire where Bella feels if she doesn’t turn into a vampire she’s just going to get everybody killed in her mind she already knows she was disten to be with Edward and that turning into a vampire was the only way. With Bella being human it kept making her whole surrounding vulnerable between other enemy vampire’s. This love story gets so crazy that Bella once In beginning was being looked at as a weakness of the bunch ends up becoming the strongest who has what it takes to step up and take the sacrifices needed to be taken to save the lives of her and her loved ones turning her into the ’’Destroyer’’ who would do anything to protect the ones she love.
Many of the things that makes Bella so amazingly unique in this book is how she starts off as a nobody with troubles and no meaning than ends up being the piece of the puzzle that changes the revolution of vampires and wear wolves forever. The way Bella & Jacob/Werewolf becomes best friends is because Jacobs Dad and Charlie are longtime friends. When Bella first moves into Folks Jacob comes by and she has a little moment with Jacob where they reminisce when they were kids, which eventually turns into an unbreakable bond. Jacob finds out more about his werewolf heritage after reconnecting with Bella. Bella is the one starts this amazing revolution against Vampire’s, Werewolf’s, & Humans. From the moment she comes to folks she’s destined to change these two worlds and she’s not even aware of it.
Towards the ending of the books Bella & Edward gets married, jacbos Flee’s because he feels he lost his love and cant stand the thought of her turning trying to save the life of her baby who in Jacbs eyes he sees as a monster. That’s when the trickness gets you because Bella gets pregnet from Edward still being human. Now in this world of vampires ,vampire/moral babies are the most dangerous and the most powerful. Bella is forced to turn after she refeses to kill her child and dies giving birth to her daughter Renesme. Edward is forced to do what he never wanted to do and that was change Bella he wanted to keep her human as long as he could. But Bella being who she is again would rather loose her life to give her daughter a fair chance at one. This is where all of the craziness starts spirals out of hand because now Edwards family ‘’ The Cullens’’ have to fight against the Werewolves & the Vultori who both want to destroy the baby in fear of what the baby is capable of not knowing Bella’s daughter is a powerful mix of both Edwards immortal powers and her Mothers human traits making her very strong warm , kind , and super mature. What finally brings the Vampire’s and werewolves together is when Jacob imprints on Renesme (Bella’s daughter). Making it Jacobs job as a werewolf trait to love, protect her , and grow old with her forever. So what started off as a love affair against Edward, Bella, & Jacob turns into this crazy scenario where he ends up with Bellas & Edwards only daughter which still works out because it brings them all together and starts a new generaion of love amonstg humans and vampire’s, werewolf’s & half mortal half vampiers. Now while all of this is going about the Volturi is out to dsroy Bella’s entire family. Puts Bella’s gaurds up where she knows shes not the vunrable girl that started off in the beginning of the book, bellas stronger now is well aware of her great powers and again is willing to do anything to protect everything she stands for. Eventually Bella’s finds away to protect her family still avoiding a war but knowing with time a war will happen and knowing she will do anything she has to. Transformed Bella is a ‘’ Warrior’’
So here we had an orphan who lost doesn’t have any meaning till she finds herself becoming a destroyer for the ones she loves. Who later comes out the strongest on top although she started off unaware of how strong and powerful she truly is. Making her the warrior she never thought she was capable of being. One of the reasons why I love Twilight so much isn’t because it’s a typical love affair is everything this love affair is based on.
