Ethic of romance in the Twilight series Dream-fulfilled in the honourable male vampire

• Main Author: Dagmang, Ferdinand D.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Love—Moral and ethical aspects; Romance fiction, American; Desire; Stephenie Meyer. Twilight series; American Literature; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3761
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper mainly comments on the following inter-related topics: 1) the author's dream and longings as the source of the novels’ drive; 2) the novels’ ethical approach to girl-boy romance as constituting the narrative’s appeal and 3) the thirst for the old-fashioned moral values as the “chord in every reader’s heart.” I will argue that Twilight is a timely offer to young adult readers who consume it with enthusiasm because of their search and mood for what is right in romantic contexts. With these goals in mind, I will show how Meyer has transformed her dream (dream-A) and longings (dream-B) into a creative and ethical act through literary composition. I will also argue for the convergence of the readers’ response to Twilight as a dovetailing between the authorial ethical position and the readers’ longing (dream-C) for what is ethical.