Reasoning With Vampires: New Moon
What I hate the most about New Moon: Meyer romanticized suicide.
I understand that teenagers (and grown-ups, too) have volatile emotions. A broken heart really can seem like the end of the world. People get depressed and feel like they have nothing to live for. I know.
Though I’m not a person…Also, people always hold Romeo and Juliet as the epitome of romantic love. What most people fail to understand is that Shakespeare wrote the play as an example of how NOT to love. Of destructive and harmful love. He was holding up saying, ‘See!? See what these fools who think they’re in love do!?’ It’s current generations that have romanticised what he initially wrote as a cautionary tale. Maybe we should invert New Moon too and use it as an example as how NOT to behave in a relationship.
I don’t like Twilight, but I heartily disagree that the point of “Romeo and Juliet” is “Teenagers are idiots.” As a professor friend of mine said, if they were meant to be dumb, their parents would have been more sensible. (Same with Friar Laurence.) It’s really more about how prejudice hurts the next generation.
