‘BREAKING DAWN’: WHAT HAPPENED TO MARCUS’ WIFE?
Q. What happened to Marcus’s wife?
A. Once upon a time, a fairly young vampire (he had only been a vampire for a decade and a half) named Aro changed his young sister Didyme, who had just reached adulthood, into a vampire in order to add her to his growing coven. Aro always wanted power, and because he himself had a potent mind-reading gift, he hoped his biological sister would also be gifted in a way that would help him rise in the vampire world. It turned out that Didyme did have a gift; she carried with her an aura of happiness that affected everyone who came near her.
- Stephenie Meyer
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Questions:
Were you surprised to find out that Aro changed his younger sister, Didyme? Why or why not?
Knowing the way that Marcus acts in the Twilight Saga, how did you feel to learn that he was once happily married to Didyme?
What do you think about Aro murdering his own sister? Did you realize that he was that power hungry?
It had been said in the Twilight Saga that the Volturi Guards aren’t forced to stay and serve. They are free to leave at any time. Did you believe that when you read it? Does it surprise you to know that Aro killed his sister in order to keep Marcus tied to him?
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Personally, I don’t find it surprising at all that Aro would kill his sister in order to keep Marcus with him. Because Marcus’s talent is very useful. He seems blood-thirsty and ruthless, so the idea of having one of the main people in the group betray him by leaving must have hurt him and drove him to commit the act.
Really, it isn’t all that surprising to me that Aro changed his sister, because of how much he loved to “collect” people with special powers. If he’d seen any potential in Didyme, there would have been no question as to what he would do.
All along I had the growing suspicion that Marcus had lost someone he loved. The power see relationships along with how bored he always looked told me that. I had no idea that he was there against his will, though. THAT was a shocker.
I have to admit thought, until I read Breaking Dawn, I was under the impression that he really was the peace-maker and that he would never kill anyone until he had no choice. But after Breaking Dawn, yes, I would believe he would kill his sister if it would give him more power.
I didn’t believe that the Volturi guard had a choice in serving, I just didn’t know how the Volturi would keep them from going until I heard of Chelsea in Breaking Dawn.
No I am not surpirsed that he would change his sister into a vampire because he doesn’t see things the way that the Cullen’s do, and knowing that he was once married to his own sister it makes me feel gross because even though he had turned her into a vampire it doesn’t change them from being brother and sister. I think that his murdering his own sister was unnessecary, and crule. This only proved that he was extremly power hungry.
No I didn’t believe that the Volturi Guards aren’t forced to stay and serve, and that they can leave when ever they want to. One of those vampires had a special ability to make people do something, thats the reason they all stayed, thats what I think
No it does not surprise me at all that he would change his own sister, hoping her gift would be a useful one for his “collection” It also does not surprise me that he would kill her to keep Marcus, if her gift had been more useful he might not have. I had a hard time believing that the Volturi guards would be allowed to leave if they chose to do so. The Volturi do not seem the type to do things out of kindness but rather with a hidden agenda, something useful to them.
I think knowing Marcus was once happily married explains a lot about his attitude. What life does he have now without the one he truly loved? I just wonder what would happen if he found out the truth. What would win out - his loyalty to Aro, or his desire to avenge his wife’s murder?