【正文】 Contents Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................... i Abstract ...................................................................................................................................... i 中文摘要 .................................................................................................................................... ii Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 1 Ⅰ . A Brief Introduction to Vampire ....................................................................................... 3 The Origin and Development of Vampire..................................................................... 3 The Vampire Images in Literature ................................................................................ 5 Ⅱ . Analysis of Vampire Images in Twilight............................................................................ 7 Good Vampires ............................................................................................................. 7 Edward Cullen…………………………………… ………………………… ....7 Carlisle Cullen……………………………………………………………… … 9 Alice Cullen………………………………………………………………… ..10 Bad Vampires .............................................................................................................. 11 James………………………………………………………………………… 11 Victoria… ………………………………………………………………… .....12 Ⅲ . The Realistic Significance Implied in the Vampire Images .......................................... 13 Tendency of Gothic Novel.................................................................................... 13 The Evolution of Thoughts in Postindustrial Era ...................................................... 14 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................... 16 Works Cited ............................................................................................................................ 17 1 Introduction Stephenie Meyer is an American author. Her first novel, Twilight, is released in 2021 to rave reviews. Like . Rowling’s Harry Potter franchise, Meyer’s book bridges the gap between teen and adult fiction. A best seller, the book is honored as a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. The following year, Meyer publishes her sophomore effort, the sequel New Moon, and sells the film rights to Twilight. With Eclipse (2021) and Breaking Dawn (2021), the four vampire books have sold over 250 million copies, and have been translated into 37 languages. With the extraordinary success of Twilight, Meyer harvests name and fame. She is named USA Today’s Author of the Year in 2021, and hailes as one of MSN Lifestyle’s Most Influential Women of 2021. She is also ranked No. 49 on Time Magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in 2021. In addition, she is on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list of the world’s most powerful celebrities in 2021, ranking No. 26. Such a superb novel is worth exploring. Few researches have been done on Twilight due to its new appearance. Some domestic scholars, such as Chen Pinjia analyses Twilight from an ecological perspective in Going Back to Nature and Being Yourself—The Ecological Tour in Twilight (2021)。論文首先對文學(xué)史上的吸血鬼進(jìn)行簡要介紹，然后對《暮色》中具有代表性的幾個(gè)好壞吸血鬼形象進(jìn)行詳細(xì)分析：以愛德華為首的卡倫家族是追求真愛，親情，和善和社會公正為終極價(jià)值觀的好吸血鬼；以詹姆斯為首的宗族是把人類作為獵物追殺的壞吸血鬼。 image。梅爾 在吸血鬼形象塑造上 對前哥特作品的加工與再處理， 從而了解 《暮色》中吸血鬼形象所 暗含的現(xiàn)實(shí)意義：體現(xiàn)未來哥特小說的趨勢，并且反映 后工業(yè)時(shí)代人們思想的嬗變， 開創(chuàng) 吸血鬼文學(xué)的新時(shí)代。 5） 蘇芳、畢會英， 2021，暮光之城四部曲對哥特文學(xué)傳統(tǒng)的創(chuàng)新與超越 [J]. 時(shí)代文學(xué) (10)： 187。 題目 史蒂芬妮 4 設(shè)計(jì)（論文）應(yīng)完成的 主要內(nèi)容： 西方學(xué)術(shù)界對吸血鬼傳說，尤其是吸血鬼文學(xué)進(jìn)行廣泛而持久的探索。 5 提交設(shè)計(jì)（論 文）形式（設(shè)計(jì)說明與圖紙或論文等）及要求： 1）要求學(xué)生認(rèn)真、獨(dú)立完成畢業(yè)論文的寫作 2）要求按照學(xué)校規(guī)定的論文格式撰寫論文 3）要求及時(shí)同指導(dǎo)老師進(jìn)行溝通，按步驟完成論文的寫作和答辯工作。 vampire iii 中文摘要 史蒂芬妮 他們的不同形象特點(diǎn)體現(xiàn)了史蒂芬妮 Dong Zhuan studies from a linguistic view in A Study on Twilight from the Perspective of Register Theory (2021)。 instead, they bee perfect creatures that possess elegance, beauty, intellect, and eternal life. This masterpiece epic creates special vampire viewpoints and their subtle inner world with female unique description. The writer endues the vampires, namely, 6 Lestat, Louis and Claudia with human nature and human emotion. Especially her words about vampire’s reflection of existence outdo the limitation of horror literature, and the image of vampire bees a kind of serious element of social culture. As vampires disconnect from people, they yearn for getting rid of loneliness at the bottom of their hearts, and they long for finding out their value of being in human society. This theme is embodied the vampires are looking for their roots in human society in Interview with the Vampire. And this reflection in Dracula and Twilight lies in vampires’ persistence and yearning for true love in human society. Thus, it sets the stage for the world popularity of Twilight. In Twilight, Edward Cullen, the hero vampire, creates a new era of vampire literature. So the thesis tries to give a detailed analysis of the vampire images in Twilight, in which both good vampires and bad vampires have their individual characteristics. From the analysis, the thesis discusses the deep significance implied in Twilight. 7 Ⅱ . Analysis of Vampire Images in Twilight In traditional gothic literature, vampires are the symbol of evil spirit. They are synony