Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints) mentioned Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 2 times

I think that you could certainly make an egalitarian relationship exciting in fiction but the way that you do that would be to put other kinds of barriers in the way. I mean I guess you look at something like Romeo and Juliet was as an obvious example where Romeo and Juliet are, I guess, more or less socially equal although you know, as medieval man and woman not really... but still there's not quite the class element that there is in say Pride and Prejudice or in Twilight.

— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)

Stephenie Meyer is continuing an ancient mythological tradition of storytelling that equates love and death. Think Hades and Persephone, the temptation of Eve, "Swan Lake", "Romeo and Juliet". Like Romeo and Juliet, "Twilight" is immoderate teenage love escalated to the point of death.

— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)