(College of Literature, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen, Shanxi 04 1000)

Abstract: Twiljght is an American writer Stephanie? StephanieMeyer's first work, according to online statistics, has a global circulation of more than 85 million copies, making it the second Harry? The most influential magic novel in contemporary western literature after Potter. This paper attempts to start with the naming of each volume, the hints of dreams, the intertextuality with traditional literature, and the creation of new myths. Explain the novel theoretically.

Keywords: metaphor; Vampires; Werewolves; New myth

As commented on the Internet, "Twilight series focuses on the emotional entanglement between Bella and Edward. It combines vampire legends, werewolf stories, campus life, horror suspense, comedy adventures and other eye-catching elements. And touching love is the' strongest emotion' in the book. " Love story must be the main content of the full text, and it is also the charm that can impress and attract readers most. However, the love story is not necessarily the whole connotation of this work. Its essence lies in the writer's rich imagination and creative ability, and her profound literary knowledge is brought into full play by means of symbols, metaphors and hints.

First, the title naming

Twilight, English nouns are interpreted as dusk, dawn, dusk, recession, recession and later period; Adjectives are fantastic, mysterious, illusory, hazy, vague and unclear. With the help of its meaning, we can have a preliminary impression of this word, which is dusk, decline and mystery. The first element of Twilight is the vampire theme. According to relevant research, in the history of human development, the understanding of vampires can even be traced back to the beginning of human birth. But the creation and research in the history of western literature. The academic circle is tentatively scheduled for 18 th century. Vampire is a traditional theme of western literature, which has far-reaching influence in the field of novel creation, the most famous of which is Drakula by Bramstock. In the Christian civilized world. Vampires belong to pagan types. It was described as dirty, barbaric and cruel. It will never die, but it has no life, let alone no soul. It is the master of the dark world, the killer, and the object abandoned by God forever. The word "Twilight" obviously contains such a meaning. Even if Mel's image of the Cullens is creative and subversive, they will be kinder and more compassionate than human beings. But Twilight is still deliberately stating the theme of vampires. Because at dusk and sunset, when the dark forces are activated, vampires who have been hidden all day begin to resurrect. From the whole process of life, Twilight is a sign of the decline of all things, but at the moment it is a world where pagan forces prevail. It goes without saying that Twilight is promoting the emergence of vampires, and different civilizations will begin to play a new concerto, New Moon. The original meaning of the new moon is a kind of moon phase. On the first day of the lunar calendar in China, people standing on the earth at this moment can hardly see the moon. The second part focuses on Jacob's official appearance, and Jacob realizes the physical transformation and becomes a powerful werewolf on the reservation. Legends about werewolves and vampires came into being at the same time. As two major images in the heterogeneous world, literature and film and television works with related themes are common. In some ancient cultures, werewolves and vampires belong to the same family and are as cruel as vampires. There is also a tradition that werewolves and vampires are natural enemies, such as the movie Legend of the Night, and they have long competed for the leadership of the dark world. In Twilight, Mel's werewolf image is also the embodiment of kindness and justice. They exist because of vampires and fight to protect mankind from them. In some literary works, werewolves usually appear in human form, but at the full moon, they will be deformed, become uncontrollable and extremely cruel, such as Harry? Lu Bang in Potter. But this book is not like this. At the new moon, in the same dark time and space, Edward leaves slightly and deliberately gives Jacob the werewolf enough room to grow up. Eclipses are special astronomical phenomena. The main content of Eclipse is that Bella's feelings wander between Edward and Jacob. In order to face the persecution of foreign vampires, vampires with hatred as their natural enemies form an alliance with werewolves. Vampires have cold bodies, while werewolves have hot bodies. The two can be figuratively compared to the opposition between ice and fire. Jacob symbolizes the sun, representing light and heat; Edward is a metaphor of the moon, occupying darkness and cold; By contrast, Bella is a weak and helpless person. She is a life on earth. In the face of emotional choice and life-and-death contest, the sun, the earth and the moon stand side by side, which is an eclipse. Dawn symbolizes the turnover of life, which means the thawing and rebirth of contradictions. Foretell a bright future. Bella passed the test of life and death, experienced the baptism of blood, and became a vampire when she gave birth to a half-man, half-vampire daughter. The power of vampire "newborn" will be enormous. Bella's unique talent will make her innate reason and "defense shield" extremely powerful, and finally repel the law enforcers in the vampire world and make werewolves and vampires become eternal allies. Dawn is an agreement on the concept of time and a messenger of light. Combined with the ending of the story, the author wants to express a harmonious force. Two worlds and two civilizations have finally merged and yearned for the eternity of ideals.

Second, the interpretation of dreams.

Mel once said. She wrote this series of works because of a dream of her own. In the dream, a young man and a young woman are sitting on the grass, bathed in sunshine and chatting happily. The boy is a vampire and the girl is a human. This special dream made dusk. The great Harry? Potter also originated from Rowling's fantasy. Mo Bosang once said that he has "second vision", that is to say, "when depicting a chaotic illusion, he highlights some enlightening things like depicting a custom scene." Many artistic creations are attached to dreams, giving birth to creative inspiration. There is a preface in front of every Twilight movie, and the content of the preface is Bella's dream. The author's exposition is to take care of the plot, and its connotation reflects the climax and wonderful point of the struggle in the following article. However, this design is of course not only to insert a suspense, but also to set off an artistic realm in which fantasy and reality are intertwined and the virtual and the real are perfectly combined. The writer intentionally blurs the boundary between reality and fantasy, because in the paradise of art, whether it is true or not is not a compulsory question. The book also wrote about Bella's nightmare many times. When she found out that Edward was a vampire, when Edward abandoned her, when her feelings became helpless, and so on, how many times she woke up screaming from a dream, and how many times she couldn't even tell whether she was in reality or in a dream. With the development of the story and the advancement of emotion, dreams become a unique hint of this book.

Thirdly, intertextuality with traditional literature.

These four works are intertextual with several traditional literature in the plot framework, such as Twilight and Pride and Prejudice, New Moon and Romeo and Juliet, Eclipse and Wuthering Heights. Born in English literature, Mel has profound attainments in traditional literature. With Bella's reading preference, Mel can convey her literary purport. In the English course of Foster High School, she also specially arranged the interpretation of Shakespeare's works. The most prominent example is that she deliberately quotes classics in the plot. There is a passage called Paris in New Moon. Bella calls herself Juliet trapped by love. She is worried that Edward is a changed Romeo and Jacob is an active Paris. Their interpretation of love and hate is as hot and intense as the noise and deformation in Wuthering Heights. The artistic realm of perfect combination of reality and reality. The writer intentionally blurs the boundary between reality and fantasy, because in the paradise of art, whether it is true or not is not a compulsory question. The book also wrote about Bella's nightmare many times. When she found out that Edward was a vampire, when Edward abandoned her, when her feelings became helpless, and so on, how many times she woke up screaming from a dream, and how many times she couldn't even tell whether she was in reality or in a dream. With the development of the story and the advancement of emotion, dreams become a unique hint of this book.

Fourth, another masterpiece of the new myth

The new myth. With the help of Mr. Ye Shuxian's theory, this paper refers to a cultural root-seeking trend of thought since the late 2nd century, which is mainly manifested in returning to the mythical imagination and folk belief tradition of pre-modern society in subject matter and theme, reflecting on modern civilized society in values, and criticizing capitalism and modernity. ~ How to rediscover the lost world of pluralistic gods through the religious prejudice of monotheism for thousands of years, especially the goddess world with a long history, is a cultural identity that fully embodies the values of the post-colonial era. "Mr. Ye divided this post-modern literature into two ways to reproduce myths:" One is to re-create the national myth tradition with a specific theme, such as Ulysses and Troy. The second is to comprehensively refine the mythological resources of various cultures, and recreate a new mythological tradition different from the traditional one by combining research, screening, integration and grafting. The Lord of the Rings, for example, "Harry? Porter, etc. " Twilight belongs to the latter type of new myth. As mentioned above, its success lies in the integration of the essence of various cultures, themes and elements, and "opening the next magical decade" with the impact of audio-visual media. The core of neo-mythology lies in the creative display of mythological elements, in the glory of pluralistic civilizations, especially pagan civilizations, in unveiling the veil of scientific and technological rationality and raising the sail of cultural anthropology. In Drakula, the author once expressed a view through the mouth of Dr. Van Helsing, that is, relying on scientific and technological rationality can not solve all problems, because there is no clear boundary between rationality and irrationality, and it is no longer feasible to rely on judgment of right and wrong to restrain human spiritual beliefs. Mainstream civilization has been unable to make an authoritative voice, and all kinds of folk beliefs, myths and legends, and even strange cultures must be sung in people's ideology at the moment. Vampires and werewolves belong to the pagan world. They are regarded as the eternal outcasts of God, lifeless and soulless, immortal but not redeemed. This is a typical monotheistic perspective. Classic Interview with Vampires subverts this ideological prejudice, and the kind vampire Louis can truly love and hate, even more vivid and human than human beings. At dusk

In the city, the Cullen family is eternal and powerful because of its true love, while Carlisle is full of sympathy and pity. In order to complete her own redemption and become a famous doctor who saved human life through suffering, Esme is the most caring, and Alice brings people enthusiasm and joy. They are full of sense of justice and responsibility. In order not to interfere with human life and arouse people's suspicion, they move, go to school, get married again and again, and so on. They have more moral consciousness than those materialized and secular human beings. So is the pagan Wen Mingzhen as bad as the orthodox dogma says? Only scientific and rational thinking can capture true knowledge? Is there still ancient life in the veins of modern people? Where should human spiritual beliefs be converted? Reading should be accompanied by thinking. If you look at the world through the glasses of "pride and prejudice", the exploration of life and the renewal of knowledge will only become more and more academic. More and more closed and narrower. In addition to the creative and subversive display of the theme of vampires and werewolves, Mel also took full care of Christian cultural ideas, such as the bright red apple on the cover of Twilight, which symbolizes the forbidden fruit in Genesis, and the forbidden love between Bella and Edward between human beings and vampires. Another example. His works have repeatedly shown his respect for Christian civilization. Carlisle believed in God and tried his best to complete his salvation. This reflects the writer's point of view that she is not just trying to break one culture and establish another, but is calling for multi-source cultures to finally move towards mutual respect and integration.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) conclusion

In addition to the above aspects, there are many symbolic and metaphorical elements in the works. For example, Volturi, a noble and law enforcer in the vampire world, is located in the Italian city of Volterra, which is the kingdom of ancient human civilization and myth. The new myth theory especially emphasizes the revival of goddess worship, such as Harry? Witch worship in Potter and so on. And Twilight also has this idea. At dawn, Bella becomes the most powerful vampire, and it is her power that finally protects the safety of human beings, vampires and werewolves. At present, there are basically no research results about Twilight in academic circles. Generally, this work is classified as youth literature, or a vampire-themed love novel, or a popular novel bestseller. I don't think these are the best comments. The novel borrows the background of youth campus, the traditional themes of vampires and werewolves, intertextuality with classic literature and fantasy literature, and various strategies and methods of popular literature. Then to the expansion of audio-visual media. From this point of view, this novel is really a masterpiece and its value cannot be ignored.

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