Examples Of Archetypes In The Hunger Games

Intro: The process of analyzing a text through myth or psychological criticism is a way of going deeper into the meaning of a movie, game, song, book, and so on. According to the novel “The Hunger Games,” with the author being Suzanne Collins, is when the main character Katniss Everdeen must go through a series of events involving many changes and challenges she must face in order to survive throughout the novel. The myth and archetypal criticism in the novel will be discussed on this paper due to the many archetypes and stages of hero’s journey seen in the book, such as “Call to Adventure”, “Crossing the Threshold”, “Darkest Hour”, “Transformation”, and so on from there. This book can obviously be differentiated due to the fact that instead of the hero being the traditional male, it is a female, making the book extremely unique.

Katniss’s younger sister Primrose Everdeen is picked and this particular event devastates Katniss, so she shouted “I volunteer as tribute!” This part of the story can be referred to as the call to adventure or princess hero moment of the Hunger Games, knowing that Katniss was willing to sacrifice herself to save Primrose’s life. Not to mention that Katniss serves as a mother archetype to Primrose, knowing that in their past life she has always cared for her. The relevance of this part of the story to the hero’s journey is that normally at the beginning of a hero’s journey the traditional male hero must face a challenge, just like Katniss now has to face participating in the Hunger