Femininity in Twilight: A Literary Analysis of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight from a Gender Perspective

Abstract

Abstract: This essay examines the female characters in the novel Twilight by Stephenie Meyer which is the first novel in the series often referred to as the Twilight Saga. Through looking at the female characters and comparing them to, among other sources, John Stephens’s schema of feminine and the masculine this essay argues that the female characters are depicted as stereotypes of their gender.