The International journal of analytical and experimental modal analysis ISSN NO: 0886-9367 Deliberate Self Harm: An Insight Into Stephenie Meyer’s New Moon S.B.Chandhini Priyadharshini Ph.D. Research Scholar, Sri Sarada College for Women, (Autonomous), Salem-16. ABSTRACT Self-harming has been one of the recent regions to enter the arena in writing for children and adolescents. Authors penning for young readers dealing with such topics have an affinity towards the promise of happiness. By entitling this paper as “Deliberate Self Harm: An Insight Into Stephenie Meyer’s New Moon” the researcher has made an attempt to analyse the fictional presentation of self-harming behaviours in Meyer’s novels with a specific focus on the second novel, New Moon. The paper concludes that such novels may prove a treasured antidote to present day situations that lead young people to mutilate themselves and so grow to be a force for fantastic transformations for young generation in future. Keywords: Self-Harm, Negative Belief, Injuries, Depression, Recuperation I stopped. She was bleeding after all. Perfect lines crossed her wrists, not near any crucial veins, but enough to leave wet red tracks across her skin. She had not hit her veins when she did this; death hadn’t been her goal ― Richelle Mead Deliberate self-damage refers to an intentional act of inflicting bodily injury to oneself without wanting to die. Deliberate self-harm behaviours most normally include cutting with a knife or razor, scratching or hitting oneself, and intentional drug overdose. They may Volume XI, Issue VIII, August/2019 Page No:63 The International journal of analytical and experimental modal analysis ISSN NO: 0886-9367 additionally encompass restricting meals intake and other ‘chance-taking’ behaviours including driving at high speeds and having hazardous intercourse. Many individuals who self-damage use more than one technique of self-harm. These acts are frequently enjoyable and include motive minor to moderate harm. Some individuals self-damage on a regular foundation, at the same time as others do it simplest as soon as or a few instances. Although deliberate self-harm is finished without lethal intent, it can cause fatality. The choice to self-damage is a common symptom of borderline personality disorder. People with other mental problems might also self-damage, which include people with despair, tension problems, substance abuse, ingesting issues, submit-stressful stress disease, schizophrenia, and several character issues. Self-harm can also arise in excessive-functioning individuals who have no underlying intellectual fitness prognosis. The motivations for self- harm vary. Some use it as a coping mechanism to provide brief comfort of intense feelings consisting of anxiety, melancholy, pressure, emotional numbness, or a feel of failure. The author whose work this paper focuses to explore is Stephenie Meyer. She is great known for authoring the Twilight Saga book collection. This collection has a series of four books particularly Twilight (2005), New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007) and Breaking Dawn (2008). Meyer’s book bridged the gap between teenager and grownup fiction. Meyer’s Twilight books, as well as the film franchise, keeps to garner media and fan interest. With a concise introduction about the author, the paper shifts to provide in a quick precis of the select work. Twilight Saga, written by Stephenie Meyer, has ended up an obsession in modern subculture for all ages. It has taken our society by way of the storm with its extreme love story of a human woman and a magical vampire. The main characters around whom the fiction revolves is Isabella Marie ‘Bella’ Swan, the heroine, Edward Cullen, the hero, Jacob Black Bella’s high-quality buddy, Carlisle Cullen’s father of Edward, Emmett and Alice Cullen, as well as Rosalie and Jasper. The tale begins with Bella Swan, who actions from Phoenix, Arizona to stay with her father in Forks, Washington to allow her mom to journey along with her new husband, a minor league baseball player. Volume XI, Issue VIII, August/2019 Page No:64 The International journal of analytical and experimental modal analysis ISSN NO: 0886-9367 After moving to Forks, Bella reveals herself involuntarily attracted to a mysterious, handsome boy, Edward Cullen and finally learns that he is a member of a vampire circle of relatives, who liquids animal blood instead of human blood. Edward and Bella fall in love, whilst James, a sadistic vampire from every other coven, is attracted to seek out Bella. Edward and the alternative Cullens protect Bella. Despite all obstacles, Bella and Edward consummate in marriage life. In the novel, Bella is depicted as being exceptionally clumsy. Her incapability to negotiate even flat surfaces such as the gym with ease offers support for her negative beliefs about herself. On the plotting stage, Bella’s clumsiness lets in for numerous opportunities for Edward, Jacob, and the other Cullens and werewolves to guard her. Although she claims to hate being the center of interest, her injuries forced her into the limelight. Her constant trips to the emergency room represent her as courageous inside the face of pain in addition to fragile and need of consistent care. Since the accidents stand up from accidents, they cannot strictly be talking be characterized as self-inflicted. After an accident Bella says, The motorcycle landed on top of me again, roaring loudly, pulling me across the wet sand until it hit something stationary. I couldn’t see. My face was mashed into the moss. I tried to lift my head, but there was something in the way. “Wow,” I murmured. I was thrilled. “Bella!” Jacob was crouching over me anxiously. “Bella, are you alive?” “I’m great!” I enthused. “Let’s do it again”. (New Moon 164-65) Nevertheless, her willingness to place herself in situations wherein she will be able to damage herself and the reality that her maximum serious injuries are a result of spending time with Edward and his circle of relatives supply a motive to look them as related behaviour. For instance, on her eighteenth birthday, she accidentally falls on the shards of a crystal vase, thereby inflicting Jasper to assault her. Bella lies to her father about the reasons for her wounds and he believes her. The most troubling thing about the acts of unintended self-harm is the mirth they reason in others. Volume XI, Issue VIII, August/2019 Page No:65 The International journal of analytical and experimental modal analysis ISSN NO: 0886-9367 In Midnight Sun, Meyer’s partially written draft of the first novel from Edward’s factor of view which is on her website, Carlisle appears at Bella’s x-rays and thinks “Look at all of the healed contusions! How generally did her mom drop her? Carlisle laughed to himself at his comic story” (Midnight Sun 68). This trivializing of her accidental acts of self- harm permit her deliberate acts of self-mutilation to pass not noted. Moreover, Bella’s coincidence-prone nature allows her, like many cutters, to discover the feeling of release from mental discomfort that physical ache offers inadvertently. In Twilight, there are no suggestions that Bella takes pleasure in her injuries, but after her depression, this changes. Bella falls into a deep depression while Edward leaves her. Four months of her existence are narrated solely by the titles of the months. This is observed through a quick paragraph “Waking Up” depicting the sluggishness of someone coming out of prolonged depression and the slowness with which period passes for a person in emotional pain. Bella is snapped out of her melancholy by Charlie’s insistence that she starts doing something or Pass again to live along with her mother. Although the narrative demands that Bella recovers sufficiently to be able to narrate her lifestyles once more, her reaction to Charlie does lamentably propose that each depressed person desires to do is to ‘pull themselves together’. That apart, Bella’s recuperation and the depictions of her mental affliction and the time it takes to recover provide a level of realism that is refreshing. What is not always as refreshing is the simplistic technique to her depression: since it became due to Edward’s absence, it’s far completely solved whilst he returns. Deliberate acts of self-mutilation form the backbone of Bella’s healing. It begins innocuously sufficient as she feels drawn toward a bar, enjoying the adrenaline rush of doing something unstable. Her pal, Jessica, questions whether or not she is suicidal and Bella concludes that “It wasn’t like I became taking a blade to my wrists” (New Moon 98). Afterward, she recognizes that her danger-taking behaviour “had woken me up” (New Moon 105). Like many cutters, having discovered a source of comfort through a twist of fate, she then repeats it in a ritualized shape with the deliberate purpose of manufacturing a hurry. Volume XI, Issue VIII, August/2019 Page No:66 The International journal of analytical and experimental modal analysis ISSN NO: 0886-9367 Bella’s the personal manifestation of the endorphin rush – listening to Edward’s voice admonishing her is first ritualized through motorbike injuries, but steadily she will increase the degree of harm until it turns into life-threatening (she jumps off a cliff). This causes Alice to have an imaginative and prescient of Bella dying that triggers Edward’s attempted suicide and in the results in the couple being reunited. In different words, Bella’s acts of self-harming are legitimized as they, in the end, lead to complete recuperation. In this manner, Meyer valorises self-harm and proffers it as a viable answer. It is likewise noteworthy that Bella takes outstanding satisfaction in subjecting herself to Edward’s anger.