I don’t credit Stephenie Meyer with enough intelligence to have figured out this line of reasoning. I think it’s most likely that Meyer created situations so that Edward could save Bella, and due to either lack of imagination or inability to notice, the preponderance of dangerous situations (and especially dangerous people) ended up very high—high enough to give smarter people ideas like violence is just more common in that world.
That said, my views on Twilight are extremely biased by my social group.
My idea that violence is common in the Twilight world is not primarily fueled by danger to Bella in particular. I was mostly thinking of, say, Bree’s death, or the stories about newborn armies and how they’re controlled, or the fact that the overwhelming majority of vampires commit murder on a regular basis.
I don’t credit Stephenie Meyer with enough intelligence to have figured out this line of reasoning. I think it’s most likely that Meyer created situations so that Edward could save Bella, and due to either lack of imagination or inability to notice, the preponderance of dangerous situations (and especially dangerous people) ended up very high—high enough to give smarter people ideas like violence is just more common in that world.
That said, my views on Twilight are extremely biased by my social group.
My idea that violence is common in the Twilight world is not primarily fueled by danger to Bella in particular. I was mostly thinking of, say, Bree’s death, or the stories about newborn armies and how they’re controlled, or the fact that the overwhelming majority of vampires commit murder on a regular basis.