The purpose of this study is to examine the character Bella Swan as a deconstruction of mythical Eve in the first book Twilight of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. The first book Twilight is examined within the discourse of Garden of Eden myth of Genesis, and Bella is exemplified as an emblem of a postmodern Eve figure who displays postfeminist characteristics in terms of female sexuality and agency. Thus she manifests a new image and a rewriting of Eve who turns out to be a free agent who determines her destiny according to her choices, a subject who acts in accordance with her desire, and a woman who seeks knowledge and desire for her own benefits. As a postmodern and postfeminist Eve, Bella’s falling in love with vampire Edward Cullen becomes her own Fall. Nevertheless, this Fall is a means of promotion in her life. Throughout the series, her Fall will eventually cause her lose her humanity, yet she will gain immortality, supreme strength and infinite beauty. Exemplified as a deconstructed version of Eve, Bella rewrites the Fall within a postfeminist frame whose major focal points are agency, sexuality, and politics of choice. In this sense, Bella as a postmodern Eve turns out to be a site of the manifestation of the female embracing empowerment through consumerism, and through the notions of choice and agency in her relationship with vampire Edward Cullen.

Keywords: Twilight, Postfeminism, Deconstruction of the Eve myth.