Re: The Third Table
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:20 pm
You've got a very good point there, both December and Pubesy. I think there must be something to that thirst that allows them to overcome their feelings of humanity so thoroughly and so quickly. And I think perhaps enduring 3 days of unendurable pain may add to that separation. I know when I'm in pain I feel both less human and less humane, and I can't really claim to have felt any sort of pain compared to that of the transformation. The combination may lead in an evolutionary sense to an *almost* certain filling of that need, and having once given in even if it is horrifying at first, it would become easier and easier.
It's also interesting from the viewpoint that we know it's NOT insurmountable - we have examples of vampires who through sheer will are able to avoid losing their humanity in that first step and others who are able to get it back after years (decades, centuries) of indulging. Since they are unable to reproduce (a full-blooded vampire) can it be considered evolutionary at all - they can't pass their vampire traits on to their children, only their morals and ideals which can be accepted or rejected. So I guess what I'm getting at is that if Bella's preconcieved notions about what being a vampire would entail for her colored her experience so much, would the general newborn thrist be treated differently by newborns if vampire lore prepared them to resist rather than giving them the idea that they were now monsters and there was no other way?
It's also interesting from the viewpoint that we know it's NOT insurmountable - we have examples of vampires who through sheer will are able to avoid losing their humanity in that first step and others who are able to get it back after years (decades, centuries) of indulging. Since they are unable to reproduce (a full-blooded vampire) can it be considered evolutionary at all - they can't pass their vampire traits on to their children, only their morals and ideals which can be accepted or rejected. So I guess what I'm getting at is that if Bella's preconcieved notions about what being a vampire would entail for her colored her experience so much, would the general newborn thrist be treated differently by newborns if vampire lore prepared them to resist rather than giving them the idea that they were now monsters and there was no other way?