Critical Analysis of Twilight

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Has anyone written a good analysis of the Sam/Emily domestic violence situation?

I'm writing my own analysis of it, and I'd like to see what others have said on the subject.
 Dragonclaws posted over a year ago
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-Grace- said:
Unless it's something that happened during Breaking Dawn (which I disliked and so only read once), I have absolutely no memory of him abusing her D:

Unless you're talking about him accidentally scratching her when he transformed. If you are, that can hardly be called domestic violence! It was an accident :) The two of them were in a forest having an argument, when Emily said something that made Sam lose his temper, and begin to transform. He had less than a second to react to what was happening, so he tried to hold his hands up to warn her away. She misunderstood, and thought that he was just trying to tell her to be quiet, so she stepped forward to continue the argument. When he transformed, he suddenly took up so much more space that his hand (or rather, claw, now that he had transformed), which was still held out to warn her away, scratched her.
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posted over a year ago 
SnapeLovesLily said:
When Sam hurts her it wasn't intentional he just couldn't stop himself from doing it. It is said in the book that werewolves can't control themselves when they are angry, so Sam can't control his violence, I mean he is a werewolf (or shapeshifter)
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posted over a year ago 
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Well, it's been a while since I've read Breaking Dawn, but I had the impression that it wasn't like in Animorphs where the human intellect goes out the window and is more like having an excess of testosterone, which is comparable to real world violence.
Dragonclaws posted over a year ago
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^Actually, human intellect doesn't go out the window in Animorphs, but I get what you're saying. I thought they kept their human thining abilities as well.
bri-marie posted over a year ago
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I just meant at the beginning of a morph, they lose their identities to animal instincts unless the morph is capable of inelligent thought.
Dragonclaws posted over a year ago
bri-marie said:
As far as I know, no, no one's written anything about it. It's surprising really: people always analyze Bella and Edward, and Bella and Jake but they never really go into the other characters.
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posted over a year ago 
tellymaster said:
link

^There's an article written about 3 abusive figures in Twilight. The last one is the Sam/Emily thing.
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