The stereotypical hero is often depicted as big, strong, hulking warriors that demolish evil like Superman or Batman. Heroes are found entwined in our culture and tradition as we follow their quest to stop ‘evil’. Often in our western culture we draw, read and watch heroes that are male, because of the out dated way of identifying women as weaker and less capable. From The Bible to a comic book, women have been saved by a male figure, however, in 2008 when ‘The Hunger Games’ arrived on book shelves and in theatres, it challenged the established idea of the hero. The main character Katniss Everdeen, ‘the girl on fire’ showed true heroism can utilise positive feminine qualities to counter the rampant, testosterone fuelled macho aggression of the traditional hero and took the phrase ‘girl power’ to another level. Katniss shows us a new way to represent the feminine and provides a positive role model for male and females as people reject the years of male only comic books James Bond fuelled fantasies.
‘The Hunger Games’ is set within a cruel and violent world, a dystopia where districts filled…show more content… An emotional issue such as Katniss’s relationship with Peeta over Gale. Throughout the games Katniss show the world her strengths and her vulnerability and both her caring, mothering and emotional feminine side as Rue dies and as she volunteers for her sister, as well as her strong, aggressive, male attributes shown when Katniss kills multiple teenagers unwillingly within the ‘games,’ and this is the moral dilemma she is faced with. When she saves Peeta with the final moments of the games and defies president snow by not killing each other when only Peeta and Katniss are the only ones left standing. Katniss undermines the accepted concept that heroes are essentially male and undermines the power of the Capitol and the dystopian values it
