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Twilight And Suicide

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For this week's article I read, “Twilight The Glamorization of Abuse, Codependency, and White Privilege,” written by Borgia, Danielle. As mentioned in the title the article talks about how the Twilight series promotes unequal gender roles, obsessive behavior, codependent relationships, etc… Borgia said that this book idealize and romanticize abusive relationships in many ways. For example, Twilight portrays the teenage female protagonist as actively seeking to become the vampire’s victim based on her sexual desires, and Borgia believes that this is a bad message to promote to the readers (young teenage girls and their mothers). The main point that the author is trying to get across to the readers is that their needs to be awareness about how the relationship between Edward and Bella is unhealthy and unrealistic and that type of relationship shouldn’t be considered a desirable one. …show more content…

For one, I didn’t realize that Edward the vampire became the hero when Bella didn’t show masculine characteristics. The masculine characteristics that she is lacking is independence, strong, self-confident, rebellious, competitive, and other characteristics like those. Why do we need to have certain characteristics in order to be considered a hero? Why is it that the male lead is always the one that gets to be the heroic character? The Borgia reading definitely challenges some of these questions. It seems that Edward is the one who deserves the reader’s pity and attention, and Bella is cast as the one who puts him at risk and in dangerous situations. That would seem backwards, but sadly that’s not the

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