New Moon: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion [antikvár]

INTRODUCTIONThese violent delights have violent endsand in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume.ROMEO AND JULIET, ACT II, SCENE VIWith this quote from Shakespeare's immortal tale of star-crossed young lovers, Srephenie Meyer opened the door to new moon, her follow-up novel to twilight. The words are from Friar Laurence to Romeo, spoken as the two await Juliet's arrival for a secret marriage ceremony, which the friar has agreed to perform. Laurence's prescient fear echoes Romeo's defiant words about his beloved:Then love-devouring death do what he dare,It is enough I may but call her mine.Like Shakespeare's doomed lovers, Edward Cullen and Bella Swan are heedless of "love-devouring death" and the chasm between themEdward, a vampire and forever seventeen, is in love with mortal Bella who, with her eighteenth birthday approaching, would happily become a vampire if only Edward would relent and change her. Despite reaching this impasse, twilight concludes with the two exchanging declarations of undying love.In new moon, Edward leaves Bella. As she laments in the novel, "I was like a lost moonmy planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity." ^