Vampire Culture

In Stephine Meyer's Twilight series, the main character, Bella Swan, is exposed to a completely different culture from her own. The culture is that of the Cullen's, a family of vampires. In these novels there are vampires all over the world, and all of these vampires have a culture completely different from everyone else. The vampire people do not live together in clans they travel in pairs of ones and twos mostly because they have a kind of animalesque quality about them which keeps them from living civilized lives, and instead living as hunters. When Bella is exposed and drawn into this alien vampire sultures she is also putting her life at risk. The vampires, for the most part, are not in control of their senses as human beings, they are attracted to the scent of blood and follow it like a predetor to its prey. They rarely contemplate the outsome of their actions and live by impulse. The Cullen family is the one exeption to these culture guidelines. They live as civilized as possible and refrain from eating humans as their migrating counterparts do. Carlisle, the father of the family is even a doctor, which forces him to be exposed to human blood for long periods of time. The Cullens, and the vampire culture show us that for culture, race or grouping there are some exeptions.