Discursive Analysis of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight: A Feminist Case Study

This research contends that the love interest of the protagonist of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight endorses domestic violence, fear of intimacy and discourages female independence. Bella Swan, the protagonist of the novel, is a teenage girl who recently moved in with his father and got interested in a 104-year-old vampire stuck inside the body of a 17-year-old boy. This paper takes an overarching feminist approach with particular focus on the patriarchy displayed in the novel. This paper employs feminist discourse to explore the novel as the primary source while looking through past research papers and filling their gaps as secondary sources. It also infers through the feminist agenda influenced by the protagonist’s love interest. The major objective of this paper is to prove the novel promotes the idea that women are better when they are dull and submissive while looking at the toxic masculinity displayed in the male characters throughout the novel. It also seeks to highlight the emotional magnetism and forced endurance of love throughout the novel. The major findings of the paper allude that Twilight characterizes women through abuse, male dependency, and the presumed inability to successfully function on their own, thus negating the role of the modern, independent woman.