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be Superman, too” {Twilight 474). Bella feels that staying human implies a type
of inequality, or inadequacy, since she is powerless; she remains Lois Lane
while Edward, with all his vampire powers, gets to be Superman.
Bella, however, does not end up as Superman in the end, but rather a
domesticated female vampire in her role as wife and mother. She marries
Edward and soon afterwards becomes pregnant with a half-human, half-vampire
baby. Only after Bella gives birth to the baby, and thus solidifies her domestic
role, does Edward turn her into a vampire. The birth scene is described:
It was a blood-curdling shriek of agony. The horrifying sou