I’m not saying I disagree with you, by the way, I just am very uneasy about people who have not read something that they are criticizing.
Like people who criticized the Harry Potter series by saying the books claimed
“There is no good or evil, only power”
when it was the villain who said that and the sentiment was rejected by the protagonist over and over.
That kind of out of context statement drives a stake (pardon the expression) through the heart of the argument.
The Twilight series is pure teenage girl angst. It isn’t a particularly well written book, it has many moral slippery slopes, but it is very difficult to take a serious moral stand against it without a good working knowledge of it.
Just like magic in many fantasy books, vampirism is used a storytelling tool in the series. It has it’s own rules and internal consistancies. The moral lessons are set upon the foundation of rules that the writer constructs, and while in real life vampirism is evil, it is used as a neutral construct for telling the story.
“Just like magic in many fantasy books, vampirism is used a storytelling tool in the series. It has it’s own rules and internal consistancies. The moral lessons are set upon the foundation of rules that the writer constructs, and while in real life vampirism is evil, it is used as a neutral construct for telling the story.”
Well said.