The Monomythic Journey of a New Heroine in the Hunger Games

Tatiana GOLBAN; Narin FİDAN

doi:https://doi.org/10.20304/humanitas.428042

Article Details

The Monomythic Journey of a New Heroine in the Hunger Games

Authors:

Tatiana GOLBAN | Narin FİDAN

Publisher:

Tekirdag Namik Kemal University

Main Topics:

Sociology and anthropology

Journal:

HUMANITAS - International Journal of Social Sciences 2018 Vol.6 Issue 12, pp.96-115

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

10/2018

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000457837

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

2645-8837

pISSN:

2147-088X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20304/humanitas.428042

Abstract:

 


Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games has as its central metaphor the traditional monomythic journey of the hero. This research focuses on the novelist’s attempt to redefine the concept of the hero in terms of gender, and also on the ways in which Collins’s retold version of monomyth represents human experience in the contemporary world. Collins offers an alternative to the paradigmatic hero’s journey, replacing it with the metaphor of the heroine’s journey. This study presents Collins’s protagonist, Katniss, who embarks on the traditional heroic quest -- which acquires a symbolical significance of a psychic experience -- and confronts multiple challenges and frustrations on her journey to success. During her heroic enterprise, Katniss turns inward, discovers and fully embraces her feminine nature and seeks a more satisfactory life paradigm as a result of which she attains the inner integration and reconciliation of both masculine and feminine aspects of her personality; she also understands and accomplishes her purpose in life. By recognizing the mythical and archetypal situations, which are subverted or inverted in the novel, Suzanne Collins reimagines the monomyth and also revises the significance and worth of private and public achievements in the contemporary community. Collins presents a new type of heroine who attains self-accomplishment only through her connection to the others.

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Yazar Suzanne
Collins’in romanı Açlık Oyunları’nın
merkezindeki metaforda monomit yolculuğu bulunmaktadır. Bu araştırma, yazarın
kahraman kavramını cinsiyet açısından yeniden tanımlamasına odaklanmış olup,
aynı zamanda Collins’in monomitin yeniden anlatılmış versiyonunun günümüz
dünyasındaki insan deneyimini temsil etmesine de değinmektedir. Bu çalışma,
Collins’in başkahramanı olan Katniss’in başarıya giden yolda çok sayıda engel
ve hayal kırıklığı ile yüzleşmesi konusuna değinilmektedir. Katniss kendi iç
dünyasına dönmekte, feminen doğasını kucaklamakta ve kişiliğinin hem maskülen
hem de feminen yanlarının entegrasyonu ve uzlaşısının sonucunda tatminkar bir
hayatın arayışına girmekle birlikte, aynı zamanda hayattaki amacını da
anlamakta ve gerçekleştirmektedir. Collins, romanda tersyüz ya da altüst edilmiş
mitik ve arketipik durumları kabul etmekle birlikte, çağdaş toplumdaki özel ve
genel başarıların önemini de yeniden ele almaktadır. 



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Article Details

The Monomythic Journey of a New Heroine in the Hunger Games

Authors: Tatiana GOLBAN | Narin FİDAN

Publisher: Tekirdag Namik Kemal University

Main Topics: Sociology and anthropology

Journal: HUMANITAS - International Journal of Social Sciences 2018 Vol.6 Issue 12, pp.96-115

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 10/2018

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000457837

Frequency: Bi-Annual

eISSN: 2645-8837

pISSN: 2147-088X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20304/humanitas.428042

Issues

Authors:

Tatiana GOLBAN | Narin FİDAN

Publisher:

Tekirdag Namik Kemal University

Main Topics:

Sociology and anthropology

Journal:

HUMANITAS - International Journal of Social Sciences 2018 Vol.6 Issue 12, pp.96-115

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

10/2018

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000457837

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

2645-8837

pISSN:

2147-088X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20304/humanitas.428042