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literally live forever with Edward. Meyer’s fairy-tale like ending is not,
however, a happy ending for females; instead, it is a throwback to Victorian
ideals of female submission and domesticity. Today, this female ideal is beyond
outdated—and yet one that will not die.
Independent Scholar
Lauren Rocha
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