Repressed Love: A Study Of Love’s Repression In Twilight Series

Abstract

The paper “Repressed Love: A Study of Love’s Repression in Twilight Series” attempts to read Stephenie Meyer’s two works, Twilight(2007)and New Moon(2007), with the Freudian framework, particularly with the concepts of id and ego. This analysis provides a better view of how the characters are moved based on certain ideas from psychology, especially Freud’s concepts used in analysingthe Twilight series. This paper seeks to provide a more comprehensible perspective on Twilight’s story and its characters, exploring their complex responses to desire, fear and love. The paper argues that the characters in the novels exhibit a desire for love, and later, in the course of time, the desire is repressed because of various reasons. The research mainly focuses on the primary characters, Edward, Bella and Jacob Black. These characters have very deep feelings for one another, and this study looks at how they manage to conceal or withhold such emotions.  Thus, the aim of the paper is to bring out instances of repression of the desire for love.