Gender Roles In The Hunger Games

One of the today’s most popular films, the Hunger Games, influenced by Greece and Roman heroes with a mix of the very foundation of modern western culture. The film the Hunger Games can be interpret in many different ways. It’s often viewed as scientific fiction for the future world. However, it can also be viewed as feminist interpretation especially focusing on the power of females and their relation to the males in the future society. According to Joan Breton Connelly, a classical archaeologist who identifies development of feminist into three stages, and her “third wave” encompasses a much broader variety of women including many colors, nationalities, religions and cultural backgrounds. As refers to “has focuses its energies on difference,

Turning to the page of Greek myths, one encounters a varied role of heroes: Odysseus’s fearless fight against the wayward seas, Hercules’ infinite and incomparable strength. The lack of female protagonists in these myths indicates a male Dominican society in which heroes are always men. Along with the film we watched in the class, “Jaynestown”, the hero is also a male and what mark as a hero is remain unchanged throughout the time: a hero is someone who risks one’s life and benefits others. Unlike the Greek hero, the new heroines in twenty-first century refer to women that would have been socially unthinkable outside the male gender less than a century ago. More than just changing cultures needs and gender stereotype, women are growing up and face new roles in the society and look for the sources of worthy, strong and capable role in their dreams. Inspired by the Greek mythology, The Hunger Games cleverly reinterprets heroism of a female hero with a variety of aspects that requires more than masculine and

She still dreams of making a new life for her and her family outside the electric fences of the District. Her way to achieve her goal is exactly matched The Ultimate boon from Joseph Campbell’s monomyth, where it refers to the achievement of the goal of the quest and it’s sometime the reason why the person went on the journey to get. Her main focus is to stay alive and win for her sister because she knows that her mother will not able to take care of her sister. Similarly, Theseus grew up in Troezen under the care of his mother without the presence of a father. Starting from a young age, brave Theseus was fired up with ambition and emulate the exploit of his heroism. Though both Katniss and Theseus convey the determination and defeating the odds, their different approaches to their goal are what advocate them to work hard and courageously forward. Feminist approach in this case is that women can pursue their dreams just like men