The Trımetrıc Projectıon of the Celt Queen Boudıca in The Hunger Games Trılogy Cover Image

The Trımetrıc Projectıon of the Celt Queen Boudıca in The Hunger Games Trılogy
The Trımetrıc Projectıon of the Celt Queen Boudıca in The Hunger Games Trılogy

Author(s): Hacer Gozen
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: European Scientific Institute
Keywords: Myths; Fantastic Literature; Archetype; Boudica; The Hunger Games Trilogy

Summary/Abstract: Through the time, in a circular reincarnation, fictional heroes inspire many real nations and generations as the real historical heroes do as in Boudica’s rebellion. The fictional heroes of the myths or legends become real myths and legends, along similar lines, give birth to new real legendary warrior heroes who rebel for their own will and nations and become realarche types. This legendary warrior heroes’ cycle, as real and fictional, can bean alyzed as a trimetric projection. Britain history, which therefore, confronts many legendary rebellious warriors, leaves a legacy, the legendary rebellious women warrior, Boudica, who has correlations with Katniss in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Boudica is one of the legendary Celt queen warriors during the Roman Conquest of Britain and the British Revolt against Rome in AD 60. Her rebellion and leadership, not as a queen, but first as anordinary woman inspires her nation to struggle for their liberty. In The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins deconstructs the real historical character Boudica and reveals the fictional heroine character Katniss as a trime tricprojection of Boudica through an archetypal construction and show scorrelation of Boudica and Katniss in terms of rebellious women warriors. In her trilogy, Collins reveals how the society emerges the ever-ready heroic qualities in Katniss as in Boudica’s legend, and in what ways the dystopian societies force certain roles on the main characters via archetypal, dystopian,postmodern and Post-structuralist literary approach. Katniss’s genesis in The Hunger Games trilogy poses how the myths of Boudica contribute to the quest and deconstruction of hero’s journey.

  • Issue Year: 4/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 33-46
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English