The Stereotypical Gender Ring : Bella Swan 's Indifference Vs. Rosalie Hale 's Proactivity

Siering states this in her article as she is breaking down female sexuality in the novel, Twilight. The simple fact in her statement is that Bella cannot resist Edward and cannot control her sexuality and lust for him. Both Siering and Kilbourne relate to each other through different forms of writing by implicitly agreeing that media portrays women as if they cannot make their own decisions and that women have no self control.

The essentials of a vampire story are an older man representing corrupt values and a young innocent female that get destructed in order to continue the life force of the male. This can be applied to the Twilight series, as Edward uses Bella. Edward and Bella fall in love; stripping away her innocence, and is brought into the lifestyle of vampires. In the course of the movie Bella gets hunted and runs away; using all of her energy. She runs away from home, stripping her from her youth. Within the next few movies, Bella gets pregnant, destructing her body, and gives birth to Edwards baby in order to continue the life force of the male.

In her essay “ Dispelling The Myth Of Gender Bias In The Family Court System,” Cathy Meyer, a certified marriage educator and divorce coach, tries to prove that courts have no bias and are not the cause of mothers obtaining custody in the majority of divorces. To support her conclusion, Meyer includes quantitative information and her own experience. Although she includes facts, Meyer fails to explain each fact and focuses on mentioning more of her own opinion.

ii). Women were meant to be unproductive, however, the females in the novel, with the exception of Mina, do not portray the typical Victorian women, "The female vampire manifests all the contradictions in Victorian and fin de siécle assumptions of femininity" (Del Principe 7).

County attorney is trying to extract information from the women but is quick to disregard Mrs. Hale’s statements. An example of this is seen when the county attorney asks if they didn’t get along very well. Mrs. Hale replies (no I don’t mean anything. But I don’t think a place’d be any cheer fuller for john wright’s being in it…(4) The county attorney replies “I’d like to talk more of that a little later. I want to get the lay of things upstairs now. (4) Women are narrow minded. Seen through some sarcastic comments made by the men several times throughout the play. One example is when sheriff comments about how “they wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it” (6) and the men openly laugh at the women. Another thing the mean are weary about the female are that they men want to see what the women are taking out of the house to bring to Mrs. Wright to double check that they are not removing anything that could possibly used as evidence doubting the women’s judgment on what should be left alone. An Example of this is when the Sheriff says. “I suppose Anything Mrs. Peters does’ll be alright. She was to take in some Clothes for her, you know, and a

What is gender? The answer to that is not so simple. “Gender is what culture makes out of the ‘raw material’ of biological sex,” (Unger and Crawford, 1995). Also, there is a difference between what is gender identity and what is a gender role; a difference which seems to be even more difficult to differentiate between than the words “gender” and “sex”. Media and other parts of our culture seem to believe they know the difference, yet up until a certain period in time, the same stereotypical characters were portrayed and used as role models for others in most media. Women characters being the helpless victims, while the strong men would come to save them (including television

In Sherman Alexie’s Flight, female characters are objectified and reduced to simple roles because their primary purpose in the narrative is to display their sexuality for the gratification of the men. Before his affair is revealed, Jimmy is seduced by his young lover: “Jimmy sits on the floor. He grabs a piece of fried chicken, a leg, and takes a bite. It’s a little dry. So, okay, Helda isn’t much of a cook. But that’s okay. That’s perfectly okay. Because she turns on a CD player and starts dancing. She dances for Jimmy! Dances for me!” (Alexie 116).

Noah Berlatsky, in his article“‘Twilight’ vs. ‘Hunger Games’: Why Do So Many Grown-Ups Hate Bella?”, is comparing two heroines Bella Swan from the “Twilight” and Katniss Everdeen from the “Hunger Games.” The author is analyzing why so many people dislike Bella’s character and is wondering if she is just a model of weak woman to whom many people find hard to relate to nowadays or is it a women’s fear to find a such relate (234).

This is illustrated in movies or books, despite the fact that they did not need to be incorporated into the story. With the examples of the characters Akasha, Gabrielle, and Claudia, Schumann points out that because of vampirism, these women are free and independent. This point is later solidified by the characters Bella, Sookie, and Elena who are all independent women, having used their own freedom to change the world

This shows how submissive and childlike Lucy is and how strong Mina is when dealing with change. People can accept change and devolve like Lucy does into a vampire, or they can fight it and evolve like Mina does into living a better life after being bitten. Human personalities define how we can or cannot handle change, which ultimately makes the future of that person expected.

‘Happy Endings’ is a metafictional story that is very different from any other short story. The story looks like an outline more than a published one, as it lacks a single setting and a plot; rather, it has a series of possible scenarios all leading the characters to the same ending, which is death. In metafictional stories, the authors become self reflective about the act of writing in order for the reader to contemplate more on the nature and essence of the story itself, rather than its ending. Atwood’s Happy ending is a satirical piece of literature that criticizes both the genre of romantic fiction with its fairy tale endings using gender stereotypes. ,Firstly, Margaret Atwood’s Happy Ending appears to be an attack from Atwood towards fairytale and happy ever after’s endings.

Throughout Humanities, there have been many books we have read and many connections between the books. Today I will be analyzing the connections between the books: Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf. Throughout all three books, common themes are seen, the thought of sexism flows throughout all three books and leads to more common themes. The themes of women being subordinates, traditional, and incapable are seen in all three books.

These roles of power and submission also seem to repeat deeply problematic conservative attitudes towards gender, sexual power and male dominance according to “Screening Twilight,” a novel by Clayton and Harman. Edward has the power in the relationship because he is immortal, he is a vampire, he has the strength of 1000 men, and he has complete control over Bella. Bella who is the submissive one because she is weak in body and in mind, she lets her emotions and feeling toward Edward rule her every move and she would quite literally do anything for her. A scene in the movie where Bella first discovers Edward’s true nature and that he is a vampire cements this idea. He explains that he has killed people and that he has the ability and the urge to kill her. Bella responds by saying that she isn’t afraid of anything he has told her, he is only afraid of losing him because she feels like he is so afraid of himself around her that he will

Bella eventually succumbs to emotional manipulation to get the upper hand in her relationship with Edward, leading her to display extreme and dangerous behavior. In New Moon, Bella purposefully puts herself into dangerous situations and uses self harm when Edward attempts to leave her: Bella rides on motorcycles, gets lost in the woods, jumps off cliffs, and nearly drowns to attain his attention. She uses this emotional blackmail and attention-seeking manipulation to show her power over Edward, exploiting his fears that she will harm herself. This counteracts feminist ideology by showing young girls that they can “manipulate patriarchy to find a way to gratify her desires, rather than those of a post-feminist agent” (Jarvis). Feminists have worked against domestic violence and earned respectable positions in households, yet this idealization of co dependent relationships negates feminist progress. Twilight gives readers the idea that rather than leaving an abusive romantic relationship, they can manipulate their partner into giving them attention, which readers identify as dominance in a relationship. This glamorization of manipulative female subordination disguised as power opposes the feminist ideals of balanced and healthy relationships. The romanticization of abuse and manipulation on both sides of the relationship demonstrate an unhealthy ideal for readers to follow.

The addictiveness of the Twilight Saga series is due to the series similarity to a hallucinogen of an immaculate fairy-tale getaway from the real world, and how the main character Bella Swan is identifiable with most females in real life as just a common adolescent mademoiselle. According to shmoop.com, Meyer commented that “she intended