“Who Runs the World? Girls!” Literature is a great way to get out of the real world. It can take us on adventures and can put us in a completely different setting. This occurs because of archetypes; Heroic archetypes and their archetypal journeys. The writer takes us through the stages of the journey to keep us engaged and interested. There are endless hero archetypes and specifically one known as proto-feminist hero; Any female that is idolised or plays a heroic role in literature. To some, the phrases feminist and hero don 't belong in the same sentence. Alice, Charlotte, Dorothy, Elsa, Fairy Godmother, Fern, Katniss, Lizzie, Merida, Tiana, all prove that girls can do anything they set their mind to (Ceron).
Alice of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, is a hero. She was sitting bored on a boring day, reading a boring book. Until she was curious and brave enough to follow a rabbit down a rabbit hole. Once she got down there, she faced many games of logic, influential imagery and riddles (Carroll). She takes on potions, a sea of tears, talking animals and an evil queen. Towards the
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She’s is an innocent farm girl from Kansas, but when her house gets picked up by a tornado and lands in the odd city of Oz, she takes charge (Baum). She wants to go home and nothing is going to get in her way. “I 'm here in Oz, Auntie Em! I 'm locked in the witch 's castle, and I 'm trying to get home to you, Auntie Em! I’m Frightened!(Baum)” Just because Dorothy is scared and intimidated, doesn’t mean she’s not a hero. It means that even though she was afraid, she could overcome her fears and do what was necessary. She doesn’t have to do it alone because she finds a few friends along the way to keep her company but she proves she’s more than capable of doing it on her own. She set her mind to something and she was going to accomplish it no matter how many flying monkeys got in her