How Does Twilight Affect Bella's Relationship?

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Stephenie Meyer’s best selling novel, Twilight, is a young-adult romance fantasy between a Seventeen-year-old girl named Bella Swan and a one hundred-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen. At the beginning of the novel Bella moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father, Charlie, while her mother, Renée, travels with her new husband. On her first day of school she is paired up with Edward Cullen as lab partners. Bella becomes immediately fascinated with his mysterious behavior towards her and starts to notice peculiar things like his eyes changing color or his extremely pale and cold skin. (Meyer, 2005)
The turning point for Edward and Bella’s relationship started when one day in the school parking lot a van spun out of control and before …show more content…

Shortly after seventeen-year-old, Elena Gilbert, loses her parents in a car incident, two vampire brothers return to Mystic falls, Virginia. Stefan Salvatore, the youngest and more humane of the two, falls in love with Elena and they begin to date. Damon, the more dangerous vampire, makes Stefan's life a living hell as he tries to win Elena’s heart over. At this point Elena is aware of what they are but does not let it affect her relationship with them. As this strange love triangle causes problems along the way, so does a past returning vampire, Katrina, who just so happens to be Elena’s doppelgänger. (Williamson, …show more content…

Stefan first saves Elena before they even know each other. He rescues her from a sinking car after it ran off a bridge. Instead of saving the parents in the front seats, Stefan goes out of his way to save the beautiful mysterious girl, Elena, all the way in the back seat. He becomes Elena’s crutch as she mindlessly puts herself and others in fatal positions, knowing very well that she has a superhero to rely on. The Vampire Diaries is just another young-adult celebration of the sexist gender roles in action. The female lead characters lack potentiality or any real influence in the final

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