Bella Swan Character Analysis
Bella Swan is a fictional character from the Twilight Series written by Stephenie Meyer. Bella Swan moved to Forks, Washington from a sunny city from Arizona and who falls in love with a vampire named Edward Cullen while having a strange relationship with werewolf Jacob Black. Throughout the whole series, Bella Demonstrates odd behaviors that are alarming and may be disturbing to the normal mind. In the book, New Moon, Edward leaves her for several months and that created a “black hole” in her chest. Swan’s personality went havoc and never recovered until her lover Edward Cullen was back in her life again. Bella Swan demonstrates the behaviours of a patient who has Borderline Personality Disorder. When Edward Cullen dumped her in the woods, the was completely in denial. She frantically searched for Edward after he clearly disappeared and left the city. In tears she was devastated and was chasing after him for several hours in the woods. This affects her hypothalamus which controls regular
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Her memory of Edward telling her to not be reckless and to take care of her replayed in her head every time she does something reckless. The recurring memory stimulates by her emotions and the traumatizing memory stored in the temporal lobes stimulated her occipital lobe for her to actually “see” Edward again. The shock of adrenaline and dopamine rushed through her body as soon as she does something suicidal or reckless. This presented Borderline Personality Disorder various times when she went on a motorcycle with guys who tried to rape her about a year ago, when she threw herself off a cliff during a big storm and a evil vampire in the water trying to avenge her dead vampire boyfriend. She also learned how to ride a motorcycle despite the fact that she almost cracked her head open on a huge rock. She always had bad coordination and balance which mean she was born with a defect in her
Her memory of Edward telling her to not be reckless and to take care of her replayed in her head every time she does something reckless. The recurring memory stimulates by her emotions and the traumatizing memory stored in the temporal lobes stimulated her occipital lobe for her to actually “see” Edward again. The shock of adrenaline and dopamine rushed through her body as soon as she does something suicidal or reckless. This presented Borderline Personality Disorder various times when she went on a motorcycle with guys who tried to rape her about a year ago, when she threw herself off a cliff during a big storm and a evil vampire in the water trying to avenge her dead vampire boyfriend. She also learned how to ride a motorcycle despite the fact that she almost cracked her head open on a huge rock. She always had bad coordination and balance which mean she was born with a defect in her