Analysis Of Bella Swan's Breaking Dawn

Bella Swan’s tale of turning into a vampire is her tale of initiation and becoming a female subject framed with postfeminist politics in Twilight series. Her process of individuation is contains a series of steps taken by her one by one throughout the series. Each book of the series indicates different stages of Bella’s individuation process from different aspects as represented by the titles of the books. This process is based on postfeminist choice politics that foregrounds female desire and transformation of female body. The last book of the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, marks the final point in Bella’s transformation and constitutes a focal point in Bella’s individuation. By focalizing a narrative through bodily sensations of pain and

The very beginning of Breaking Dawn highlights the consumerist identity politics in its depiction of Bella experiencing the luxury of wealth. Bella is described within a pleasure of assessment to expensive objects like her engagement ring and her new car:

It wasn’t bright out—a typical drizzly day in Forks, Washington—but I still felt like a spotlight was trained on me, drawing attention to the delicate ring on my left hand. At times like this, sensing the eyes on my back, it felt as if the ring were pulsing like a neon sign: Look at me, look at me. It was stupid to be so self-conscious, and I knew that. Besides my dad and mom, did it really matter what people were saying about my engagement? About my new car? About my mysterious acceptance into an Ivy League college? About the shiny black credit card that felt red-hot in my back pocket right now? ‘Yeah, who cares what they think,’ I muttered under my breath

This situation designs Bella and Edward’s relationship not only on love but also on gain and profit. Additionally, Bella combines her consumerist ideology with the ideology of beauty in her construction of her new identity as a powerful Goddess. She wants to have a strong, powerful body which is at the same time young and beautiful. She says: “Virtual indestructibility was just one of the many perks I was looking forward to. The best parts about being a Cullen were not expensive cars and impressive credit cards” (Meyer). Bella’s motives for a better life on her way to becoming a Goddess are centered on individual choices and profits. Although Bella may seem to be under the effect of Edward’s personal traits and interruptions in her affairs, she fits within terms of autonomous individual leading her life according to her personal choices and governing her identity on her way to the summit of her life. In defining autonomous individual, Nikolas Rose underlines the emphasis on freedom as a capacity to fulfill one’s desires through conscious choices. Rose says