The set up is creepy as hell. His skin is pale and cold; his hair is gelled and lightly frosted. It takes more than 20 seconds for their mouths to meet. Girls across the world tore through thousands of pages, desperate to get the bit where Bella bones.
For a moment, Edward gives in. He throws her down on the bed. Look, the sexual politics of the source material are abominable. I saw Twilight in theaters, home on winter break during my junior year of college. I went with a friend from high school and we treated the experience as a joke, even as we paid actual money for tickets in exchange for the privilege of spending two actual hours of our lives watching Robert Pattinson sparkle.
At 21, I was barely removed from that intoxicating mix of fear and lust and hormones that is the province of high school. Edward is a character who has a lot of self-loathing. He believes that he is damned because he's a vampire, and so he doesn't want Bella to become one. While this might make sense given his warped sense of self, the amount of time he spent trying to convince her to not be with him and to not become a vampire was just annoying.
While his motivations were to protect Bella and to save her soul, he probably should have just never dated her in the first place if he was so concerned. After Edward leaves Bella in New Moon, she is really depressed to a very concerning degree. She finds some happiness and comfort with Jacob, and while she never feels as strongly about him as he does about her, there is a part of her that is interested in him romantically.
He wants to wait until marriage, so their wedding night is the first time for both of them. Everything seems to be based on physical attraction, and while this makes some sense, most relationships need more than that to continue. So, perhaps, this is why they get along as they are both kind of boring.
Edward knew from the very start of his relationship with Bella that her life would be far less dangerous without him in it. He ignored that fact and stayed with Bella even after she almost perished at James' hands, but when her life was again threatened by his own adopted brother, Edward finally decided it was best for him to leave Forks and abandon Bella for her own safety. By the time Edward accepted the truth about Bella being safer without him, she was absolutely dependent on him and unable to live life without him by her side.
So, in leaving Bella when he did, Edward made things even worse as he sent her plummeting into a horrible sadness that she was entirely unable to escape from. Bella spent the first several months after Edward left her either going through the motions at school or alone in her bedroom, refusing to accept or move on from their surprising breakup. It wasn't until she started spending time with her friend Jacob Black that she was finally able to find some semblance of happiness again.
Jacob was able to put a genuine smile on Bella's face, and she became as dependent on him as she used to be on Edward. They had great chemistry together, and fans who value being friends with a significant other before entering into a relationship with them found themselves rooting for brooding heartthrob Edward to stay away so Bella could end up with optimistic and caring Jacob instead.
Unfortunately for those "Team Jacob" members, that wasn't what Stephenie Meyer had in mind. Some individuals dislike the idea of even their significant other watching them while they sleep, but in romance books and films, staring at someone who is off in dreamland is often meant to be a sign of true love because it's an opportunity to see a soulmate looking peaceful and content.
The problem with Edward's observation of Bella's sleeping, however, is that he started watching her before they even got to know each other. Edward liked to break into Bella's room in the middle of the night and just stare at her as she slept. At the time, the duo weren't even friends, let alone lovers, so this practice really shouldn't be considered romantic.
It was disturbing, and even the biggest Edward and Bella fans shouldn't forgive him for this. Edward was one of the most handsome teenagers in all of Forks, so it's no big surprise that Bella became so incredibly attracted to him.
His good looks were only enhanced when he became a vampire, but unfortunately, the transformation into an immortal brought with it some serious downsides that fans often ignore when they imagine themselves lying next to Twilight 's leading man. Vampires' skin is incredibly cold due to the lack of blood coursing through their veins, and it is far more impenetrable than normal human flesh. Cuddling up to a vampire would be a similar experience to cuddling up with a marble statue.
That's why, when Bella, Edward, and Jacob all shared a tent at the top of a snowy mountain, Bella choose to share a sleeping bag with her best friend over her boyfriend. When Bella moved to Washington to live with her father Charlie in Twilight, she found herself completely alone and without friends at Forks High School. Luckily, it didn't take very long for Bella to meet people like Mike Newton and Jessica Stanley, who went out of their way to make her feel at home.
Bella's human friends were a very important part of her life for her first few weeks at Forks, but when she started getting close to Edward, she completely abandoned them. She went back to them when Edward and the rest of the Cullens abandoned her in New Moon, but once her boyfriend returned, Bella went right back to neglecting her friends. Edward loved being possessive and over-protective of Bella, so he did nothing to encourage her to have a social life outside of just being with him all the time.
Edward grew up in the early s, so it's understandable why he's so old-fashioned when it comes to his views on togetherness before marriage. What's far less understandable, however, is why he made Bella feel so guilty all the time for wanting to take their relationship to the next level. During their first kiss, Edward dramatically backed away from Bella.
He continuously told her about his desire to wait until they were married to do anything more than kiss, and anytime Bella implied she wanted more, he embarrassed her or made her feel ashamed of her feelings.
At one point, Bella even admitted, "you really make me feel like I'm some sort of villain trying to steal your virtue. At first glance, Edward and Bella appear to be a perfectly age-appropriate couple. Bella was turned into a vampire when she was eighteen years old, while Edward will forever look like a seventeen-year-old because that was his age when Carlisle Cullen chose to save his life by granting him immortality.
Looks, however, can be deceiving. Edward was actually born in , making him when he met Bella at Forks High School in Bella was just an awkward teenager, but Edward had been alive for over a century and was thus significantly more intelligent and experienced than his sudden crush.
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