New Moon Write Up

Before going in to see New Moon, I had my opinion, my stance on Bella. I’ve read the series; she falls in love, if you can call it that, with a vampire, he leaves her for her own good, and then she crumples into a ball and cries for around three hundred pages hurting everyone around her. I know exactly what to write for this entry.

Obviously, Bella is a feminist’s worse nightmare. She has no will to live after Edward leaves her, and without some man (Jacob and his pack, Edward, etc) to come save her, she wouldn’t even have lived to her eighteenth birthday. Bella epitomizes everything feminists despise; she is a helpless girl that needs a man to protect her and even to keep her functioning. And, just as obvious, I dislike Bella’s character. I’m not sure if this is a feminist side of me, but I just want her to be able to live by herself for herself. Weak women irritate me. I do not mean that women have to be just like men, doing all the things men do. I just wished girls would stop believing themselves nothing without their men to give them reasons to live. That is just ridiculous. Bella is fitting right into that gender role, and thus, I do not care for her.

However, as I was cringing (at Bella and Kristen Stewart’s “acting”), I realized Bella has somehow received some power over the men who help her. Edward is willing to kill himself for a mere fragile human girl if she no longer exists, and Jacob continues to hurt inside and help her despite the fact that she breaks his heart. She falls down and they both come running, vying to help her up, battling for her attention. It’s actually very scary that such an incompetent girl with no strength mentally or physically to hold her own in the world, hooks two very capable, strong and kind young men into doing her every bidding WHILE being a helpless damsel in distress and pining after Edward.

So, as much as I hate to even imagine, girls’ weaknesses somehow charm some guys and give themselves female power. However, Bella’s defenseless hurt baby animal pull does not come close to her insane inability to shut down without Edward. Bella is silly; she is a horrible perfect gender typer.