The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer, including Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn, has won multiple awards and is the most popular among young adults. The series is both an unbelievable romance of a 17-...The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer, including Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn, has won multiple awards and is the most popular among young adults. The series is both an unbelievable romance of a 17-year-old girl and a 104-year-old vampire and an exquisite fantasy of the supernatural and impossible. Typical fantasy elements exploited in the series, including the existence of supernatural creatures, fulfillment of human desires, depiction of the Secondary World, and imagination of a Utopian society, play a significant role in achieving its magic appeal to the readers worldwide. Thus, the present paper attempts to explore how such irresistible attraction is made possible by employing these fantasy elements.展开更多
文摘The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer, including Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn, has won multiple awards and is the most popular among young adults. The series is both an unbelievable romance of a 17-year-old girl and a 104-year-old vampire and an exquisite fantasy of the supernatural and impossible. Typical fantasy elements exploited in the series, including the existence of supernatural creatures, fulfillment of human desires, depiction of the Secondary World, and imagination of a Utopian society, play a significant role in achieving its magic appeal to the readers worldwide. Thus, the present paper attempts to explore how such irresistible attraction is made possible by employing these fantasy elements.
