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But her body confidence grows when she begins her transformation, not from human to vampire, but from single woman into wife and mother. When she is on the ‘mommy track’ she has found her niche and blossoms into her beauty. She looks at herself in her wedding dress (the importance of which is discussed in more detail by Sarah Heaton later in this collection) only after the ceremony when she is officially Edward’s wife and her appearance is unrecognizable to her. Bella Cullen is the ‘dark-haired beauty at his side’ with skin like ‘cream and roses’ (Meyer, 2008b, p.
He exists, not as a tall-dark-and-gruesome figure of flesh and blood, but within literature, culture and psychology, a myth that shapes our minds. Alan Moore, at the conclusion of The Black Dossier, r the last complete volume (to date) of his series of graphic novels, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, brings Prospero onstage to deliver an envoi which sums up what both he and Newman wish to say about the relationship between truth and fiction, art and life: Your trustiest companions since the cave, we apparitions guided mankind’s tread, our planet, unseen counterpart to thine, as permanent, as ven’rable, as true.
Meyer has argued that Twilight is not anti-feminist as Bella exercises her right of choice: ‘the foundation of feminism is this: being able to choose. . One of the weird things about modern feminism is that some feminists seem to be putting their own limits on women’s choices. That feels backward to me. It’s as if you can’t choose a family on your own terms and still be considered a strong woman’ (Meyer, 2005–present). Meyer argues that she created Bella as a ‘strong person who goes after what she wants with persistence and determination’ (Meyer, 2005–present).