An archetypal analysis of Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games

  1. Zalbidea Paniagua, Maya 1
  1. 1 Profesora Asociada Departamento de Estudios ingleses Facultad de Filología Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Revista:
Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia

ISSN: 1699-597X

Ano de publicación: 2021

Título do exemplar: La agencia femenina en las narrativas audiovisuales = The female agency in audiovisual narratives / coordinado por Mª. Teresa Vera Balanza, Elia Saneleuterio, María Jesús Ruiz Muñoz y Daniele Leoz.

Número: 16

Páxinas: 270-280

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.18002/CG.V0I16.6932 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

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Resumo

Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy invites to reflect on the exchange of gender roles metaphorically performed by a female and male protagonists who play the warrior as well as the family protector roles. From a myth-critical theoretical framework and applying psychoanalysis in literature methodology, this article will provide a feminist analysis of The Hunger Games trilogy (2008-2020) focusing on how the protagonists, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, deconstruct gender stereotypes. Peeta Mellark will be regarded as a future man who supports gender equality while Katniss Everdeen will be considered a representation of goddesses’ archetypes applying Carl Gustav Jung’s (1970) approach on archetypes and collective unconsciousness as well as Jean Shinoda Bolen’s (2010) theories of feminine psychology based on Greek goddesses archetypes.

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