Gothic features in Twilight
Ⅰ.What is Gothic ?
The word comes from Europe, the first called the early Gothic tribes, is a Germanic nation, roughly located in the Danube River, but others say they are actually distributed in Scandinavia Aboriginal. Gothic in Europe before the Renaissance is dead exhausted, and basically, in the context of European civilization, the Gothic people are savages in lieu of that Gothic is terror, ignorance, ignorance of a synonym. This is the "Gothic," the first meaning. Was later followed to the architecture, literature, music and other fields.
Simply put it, Gothic is to the dark side of the world the human spirit as the basis and starting point to explore some of the death, pain, loneliness, and so the dark side of the subject, I think this is the Gothic culture, where the core characteristics. Since the Gothic culture can enter the novel, construction and other arts, that as the "seventh art" film, what reason can be an exception? When the inevitable encounter Gothic Film - "Gothic film" as a type of film, it naturally came into being.
Ⅱ.The plot of Twilight
"Twilight" series of novels by people Guilian theme, describing the secondary school vampire Edward and Bella love story between. "The New York Times" called "the emotional entanglements are ambiguous, there is adventure twists and turns, there is magnificent exotic extraordinary imagination, there is vivid description of the scene, there are thrilling reading pleasure, but also the warmth Watch spiritual consolation." Novel the vampire legend, werewolf stories, campus life, suspense, horror, comedy, adventure, romance, and many other topics melting in a furnace, in particular, is one of horror, mystery, suspense, crime, revenge, etc. to join the Gothic elements, greatly enhance their readability. This paper from the start, read "Twilight" series of novels in the shaping of characters, scenes of horror in terms of Gothic elements described embodiment, exposing the "Twilight" series of novels unique Gothic charm.
Ⅲ. The "Twilight" series of novels in the Gothic elements
1.Gothic shaping of characters
Gothic characters in the novel image-building there is a pattern. First, they tend to have weird visual, decadent, morbid, horror visual impact. They feared their face hidden under a unique supernatural ability. Demonic violent is their character. They exude a "Gothic" atmosphere, people read frightened.
"Twilight" series of novels by Edward Cullen family as the center of a group of vampires. They have a different from normal appearance, pale skin was similar to pathological conditions like cold marble general. With the physical changes in the level of hunger, eyes will be showing a red, golden, light brown, dark, etc. in different colors. They never sleep, animal blood for food. Also, they all have strong supernatural ability. Edward has amazing speed and the ability to read minds, Alice is able to foresee the future. After Bella becomes a vamp
ire in their own protective shield around the formation of a strong, difficult for outsiders to invade.
Were wolf novel also shaped the image. Their appearance also has a strong visual impact: abnormal burly figure, a big man, muscular, fourteen-year-old had grown up, with a strong physique and self-recovery function, can become a huge wolf at any time shape, with a strong attack and running speed. In the jungle where their four night patrols for the protection of human security and bloodthirsty vampires categories.
Vampire and werewolf character traits and character of traditional Gothic novel have many similarities. Most of the newborn vampires manic personality, especially in the face of the temptation of fresh human blood to
To endless rage. Wall map in the royal family of vampires, has supreme power. They live in underground dark castle, character gloomy, mysterious cold, brutal, chilling. Wolf People temperament irritable, loses his temper with loved ones around could not escape. In short, the "Twilight" series of novels in the shape of vampires, werewolves and teenage Bella's image fusion of the traditional Gothic novel tyrant, evil MA, and innocent young girls and other characters of the classic Gothic shape and character traits , with a strong Gothic colors.
(2) the description of the scene of terror
Gothic horror novel is a significant feature. Often through the traditional Gothic novel, "greatly exaggerated, highlights the pain, suffering and death process", causing the reader a strong visual impact, creating a strong feeling of terror.
"Twilight - Twilight" Bella is the author describes the process of torture vampire, strokes and delicate, the scene real, so that the reader was impressed. Bella Edward attended home baseball game, I met another group of vampires. They have named James, is Bella attracted new blood attractive, and Edward fight for Bella and his family launched a desperate struggle. James led the design of the Bella. Thus, the natural Cuoshou began his cat and mouse game. "He immediately rushed on me, one foot is hard step down towards my legs and I heard a sickening Kacha soon." "He's broken leg in my toes rubbing, and I heard Scream. "The author also describes the delicate brush strokes of blood flow caused by physiological processes and feelings," I am letting the sharp glass cut through the skull, and heat, warm damp an alarming things the rate of spread out my hair I can feel it in my shirt shoulder to infiltration, hear it dripping on to the wood below it taste so badly my stomach. "
Edwards family in the description of the battle with Victoria. Authors spare no effort to portray the bloody and brutal battle, the body tissue distortion breaks the pain feel the show thoroughly.
"In my place in front of one yard and a half, a huge wolf tear his body under the blond vampire." "Riley stood up, it seems bizarre, haggard, but he was able to leap the hit game think of the shoulder, I h
eard the crunching sound of breaking bones. SHINES step back, a lame to begin a street cruising. Riley out of his arm, ready, although he seems to have lost part of hand ... "" Seth from the flank Riley rushed, screaming Laer sounded terrible cry, what's been torn up, another piece of heavy white chunks flew into the woods call is heard. "can be seen, the authors describe these brutal battle Well not too much friendship scenes dye, and even some soft shades of bloody fighting words to balance flavor, but the scatter of the fracture from the four limbs and scream in fear Laer's already in the darkness of the jungle disperses.
Conclusion
In short, the movie "Twilight" is a Gothic culture to show classic films. Which Gothic culture and themes, and infiltration in the vampire movies everywhere, not only in light and shadow, figure modeling, construction, etc. permeated with Gothic culture, but also from the human desire, fear, hatred, desire for immortality other point of view to show the Gothic theme