While reading and talking in class today, I could
not help to think about the movie “Twilight” when we discussed the story “The Anatomy
of Desire” especially with the correlation of the fascination with someone’s skin
in both of these stories and want to be able to possess someone else in the
name of love. In the “Twilight” movie, there is one particular scene where
Bella and Edward are in the woods behind the high school and they are laying on
the ground together in the sun light and she has a fascination with the
glittering of his skin when the sun hits it. He is actually ashamed of how it
glitters which seem to play into her fascination even more. This scene is
similar to when the General is admiring Hanley’s face and seems to have an
unnatural attraction to how perfect it is and how Hanley not only wants the Saints
love but he actually wants her to allow him to cut her skin off so he can totally
possess her.
Another similarity is the personal need to love and/or
possess someone so much that you are willing to change who you are and/or who
they are so you can have or possess them completely; Bella loved Edward so much
that she wanted to become what he was, a vampire which to most who were
vampires was not a choice they would have made given the chance. Bella is human
and wants more than anything to become a vampire like Edward. Just like the “Saint” in the story, Bella is
willing to give up her human life for immortality like Edward has. One major
difference is Edward does not want her to do this but she insists that she
understands all of the consequences of her choice.
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