In the "Twilight" saga films, which recently started streaming on Netflix, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is caught in what's arguably this generation's most famous and hotly contested love triangles, launching the epic feud between Team Edward and Team Jacob shippers.
In New Moon, a lot of fans began to argue that Bella clearly has feelings for Jacob. As the series continue, that only became clearer, especially when she asked Jacob to kiss her in Eclipse. Despite being in love with Jacob, Bella constantly chooses Edward over him.
A love triangle, in the way that she's writing, is the conflict generated by two people in love with the same person, and the object of such affection's being forced to choose. There is no conflict in Bella's mind. Bella doesn't love Jacob, she never did.
Kristen Stewart recently got candid about the on-screen love triangle that plays out in the Twilight Saga, as she herself has personal experience with such trials of the heart. Stewart, who plays Bella Swan on screen, feels for both vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and werewolf Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner).
Bella Swan and Edward Cullen: the main couple in the Twilight Saga. There was this beautiful image, this boy, just glittering with light and talking to this normal girl. And the dream really was about him. She was also listening, as I was, and he was the one telling the story.
Bella gets pregnant after one night of passionate sex with her husband Edward the vampire, sex that leads to the destruction of their idyllic honeymoon suite.
Bella falls in love with Jacob in New Moon. I think it's easy to understand why this fact doesn't occur to her. Bella has only fallen in love one time, and it was a very sudden, dramatic, sweep-you-off-your-feet, change-your-world, magical, passionate, all-consuming thing (see: Twilight).
Except that Edward is not asexual or aromantic. In the context of the Twilight franchise, he's basically just waiting for the right seventeen year old girl to magically appear so he can groom her into his vampire bride. The language Meyer chooses is 100% grooming language.
On Tuesday, Us Weekly revealed photographs of Stewart passionately kissing Rupert Sanders, the director of her latest film, Snow White and the Huntsman. Sanders, at 41, is nearly twice the age of the 22-year-old Stewart, and what's worse, he's married with two young children.
“The relationship between Bella and Edward is 100 percent toxic, unhealthy and abusive,” says Rachel Wright, a New York-based licensed psychotherapist and relationship coach. “The Twilight movies promote the idea that women are better when they are dull and submissive.
In fact, many have rightfully criticized "Twilight" for its heavily anti-feminist sentiment and sexism. Like the many romance films marketed toward young women, "Twilight" is yet another stale, predominantly white film in which the “weak” female protagonist needs a “strong” and powerful man to be her “savior.”
Bella suffers from a classic case of clinical depression, triggered when Edward leaves her in the woods.
The 21-year-old's character Bella Swan gets intimate with vampire Edward Cullen, played by her real-life boyfriend Robert Pattinson, in the last two instalments. "There are two big sex scenes in the two final films and we did them fairly early.
In Twilight, 17-year-old Bella moves to her father's home in Forks, Washington, meets the mysterious Cullen family, and falls in love with seemingly teenage Edward Cullen.
Bella chose Edward over Jacob because Edward associates more with Bella, is more similar to her, and appears to Bella as a better parent and provider. Edward and Bella are in closer proximity than Jacob and Bella because Edward and Bella go to school together.
In the Twilight series, sex comes after marriage – at least according to Edward. So when Edward and Bella get married, they make love for the first time. Breaking Dawn links sex and danger, at least initially. Before Bella becomes a vampire, sex with Edward poses a serious threat to her.
Edward also displays many stereotypical characteristics of abusers. First, one of his hallmark characteristics is his control over Bella and his attempts to isolate her from others. Abusers often use this tactic as a way of ensuring that their victims have no way to escape should they attempt to do so.
Edward had a theory that Bella's overwhelmingly appealing blood may be derived from a mixture of her parents'—Renée's being far too sweet and Charlie's being moderate—together, giving her blood a more powerful appeal. The blood of singers is described by Edward as being said vampire's "own personal brand of heroin".
Double betrayal – Bella feels betrayed by Jacob after he exposed her lie to Charlie.
Although she was never attracted to Edward, Rosalie was actually offended by the fact that Edward did not feel any attraction to her because she was used to being adored by everyone around her.
5. Why did Jasper go so crazy over Bella's paper cut? Jasper is the youngest vampire in the Cullen pack so he has the hardest time resisting human blood.
Sperm are living cells. Edward is dead - his cells have been burned and crystallized by venom, as described by Stephenie Meyer herself. Therefore his sex cells (sperm) are also dead. Dead cells aren't functional.
Jacob is extremely insecure and does a lot of abusive things to Bella. This isn't to say that Edward was a saint as he did some messed up things, too, but Jacob was often out of control. He would use his emotions to manipulate Bella to try to get her to be with him.
Just before Jacob almost kisses Bella, he says "Kwop kilawtley," which means "stay with me forever" in Quileute.
In Jacob's case, he imprinted on Renesmee — who he affectionately dubbed Nessie — when she was a baby, so no, it doesn't mean he's in love with her. Jacob just has a strong bond to Renesmee and is more of a protector and as she gets older, will be a best friend, someone who's there for her when she needs it.