He exhibits creepy, stalker-ish behavior like sneaking into Bella's room to watch her sleep without her permission, and possessive, controlling behavior like disabling her car so she can't go see any of her friends (namely his romantic rival/ secret lover Jacob Black), not to mention that she is lusting after a significantly older man.īreaking Dawn, the final 'book' in the Twilight series, could be described as a 750-page pro-life, pro- abstinence-until-marriage allegory, with 18-year-old Bella unintentionally getting pregnant on her honeymoon (how dare she have guilt-free sex after marriage?), then declining to have an abortion even though the hybrid vampire-human fetus comes to full term in a matter of weeks and almost kills her with its rib-shattering kicks. Įdward's relationship with Bella has been seen as having abusive overtones. Bella has been perceived as being a weak character whose only defined personality traits are her extreme clumsiness (except when she's being 'very graceful') and high level of maturity (except when she speaks, or acts), and whose hobbies, interests, and goals mainly revolve around the males in her life: cooking and cleaning for her father and pining after the impossibly perfect Edward Cullen. Pro something-or-other The taming of the Belle Ĭritics have accused the Twilight series of sending a blatant anti-feminist message.

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