Twilight, a saga based on the writings of Stephanie Meyer, are based on a family of vampires that are known as the clan of The Cullen's. This saga became very popular starting in the year of 2008, when the first film of the saga was released. Many of us were young when we first watched this particular film and we did not see the dangers of the relationship between Bella Swan and Edward Cullen because we were much more enthralled with the aspect of passionate love and This film can go through a psychoanalytic analysis, as well as cultural. Their relationship has been known to be seen as a very unhealthy relationship because Bella, portrays the victim in the relationship who has a low self-esteem and easy to have her become committed to him and only him. Edward is seen as the abuser because of his dominant trait of being controlling and keeping Bella isolated to himself and away from her childhood friend, Jacob Black. This is also a perfect portrayal of ultimate sexism and abuse of power; considering that since Edward is a vampire and easily have more power. This can be seen through a cultural analysis because this portrayal of a romantic relationship is seen to be as the most desired. This is because we desire a man who "protects" us like Edward does with Bella. However, this is damaging to the psyche because the female becomes too dependent on the dominant controlling individual, which then leaves Bella in the second film- New Moon unable to live without Edward when he leaves her.
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