The Monomythic Journey of a New Heroine in the Hunger Games
The Monomythic Journey of a New Heroine in the Hunger Games

Summary/Abstract: Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games has as its central metaphor themonomythic journey of the hero. This research focuses on the novelist’s attempt toredefine the monomyth in terms of gender, and on the ways in which Collins’s retoldversion represents human experience in the contemporary world. This study presentsCollins’s protagonist, Katniss, who embarks on the traditional heroic quest andconfronts multiple challenges and frustrations on her journey to success. During herheroic enterprise, Katniss turns inward, discovers and embraces her feminine natureand seeks a satisfactory life paradigm as a result of which she attains the innerintegration and reconciliation of both masculine and feminine aspects of herpersonality; she also understands and accomplishes her purpose in life. By recognizingthe mythical and archetypal situations, which are subverted or inverted in the novel,Collins revises the significance of private and public achievements in thecontemporary community

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