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This blog is actually continuously updated as well and has some other different entries.
Twilight's "Alpha Girl"
If you Google “Alpha Girl, Twilight,” for the most part you will be directed towards amateur fan fiction, but this is perhaps just as indicative of what an alpha girl means in the context of Twilight. Though an alpha girl is defined among peers and colloquially as a girl who is in charge and gets what she wants, an alpha girl is always on top. However, this is not the alpha girl image that Twilight paints.
The Twilight series leaves something to be desired in the realm of female empowerment, though the book Fanpire states that Bella is empowered because she has the ability to choose her life, I find it the opposite because Bella gives up her entire life, and her sole source of happiness comes from her relationship with Edward.
The blog, http://themetapicture.com/hermione-granger-vs-bella-swan/, compares this supposed alpha girl and heroine with one of much higher stature in the Harry Potter series which has been marketed to the same age group as the Twilight series. Here, Hermione, the alpha girl of the Harry Potter characters, shows admirable qualities and her personality outside her romance. Bella alone is nothing without Edward: plain, simple, nothing other than ordinary. Hermione is well established before her romance even begins: she is smart, courageous, and ambitious, traits that extend far beyond her physical appearance or romantic involvement.
Perhaps the most quintessential moment that shows the differences between these two characters is when they are each at their supposed “lowest point,” when each of their boyfriends leave them. While Bella literally deteriorates and withdraws herself from society and spirals into depression, Hermione continues to help Harry in his mission to save the world. With just this alone taken into consideration, it seems impossible to even think that these two can be described under the same ambiguous umbrella that is the blanket term “alpha female.”
The Twilight series leaves something to be desired in the realm of female empowerment, though the book Fanpire states that Bella is empowered because she has the ability to choose her life, I find it the opposite because Bella gives up her entire life, and her sole source of happiness comes from her relationship with Edward.
The blog, http://themetapicture.com/hermione-granger-vs-bella-swan/, compares this supposed alpha girl and heroine with one of much higher stature in the Harry Potter series which has been marketed to the same age group as the Twilight series. Here, Hermione, the alpha girl of the Harry Potter characters, shows admirable qualities and her personality outside her romance. Bella alone is nothing without Edward: plain, simple, nothing other than ordinary. Hermione is well established before her romance even begins: she is smart, courageous, and ambitious, traits that extend far beyond her physical appearance or romantic involvement.
Perhaps the most quintessential moment that shows the differences between these two characters is when they are each at their supposed “lowest point,” when each of their boyfriends leave them. While Bella literally deteriorates and withdraws herself from society and spirals into depression, Hermione continues to help Harry in his mission to save the world. With just this alone taken into consideration, it seems impossible to even think that these two can be described under the same ambiguous umbrella that is the blanket term “alpha female.”