An Analysis Of Androgynous Female Hero In Film The Hunger Games

"Hero" mainly refers to those persons who own particular talents among ordinary people. They can lead people to make a difference or do it by themselves. However, the male is usually chosen as the best person to be the hero for male is considered stronger than female in the aspects of physical and mental abilities. Therefore, almost all kinds of heroes are built as males in Hollywood while females always play the marginal roles or serve as the foil to male heroes. Recently, feminism tends to build the fresh female images through films, including hero image. But what kind of female hero can be totally accepted has not been clarified yet.The film The Hunger Games is adapted from the same novel which written by American writer Suzanne Collins. The "hero", Kaniss Everdeen, replaces her sister to be the tribute and joins the inhumane game in this movie. But she doesn’t give up. While she is searching the way to survive, she is unconsciously breaking the rules of the game. In the process of fighting, she becomes the hero and has finished many tasks which males failed. At the same time, she breaks the traditional gender stereotypes and naturally combines the masculine traits and feminine traits together. She constructs a fresh hero image. This paper will comprehensively analyze the dual cultural attributes of the "hero" from the process of saving herself and others.The body part is composed of three chapters. Chapter one tries to reveal the fact that the absence of the female hero image which contains both gender cultural characteristics according to the analysis of hero roles and female roles in Hollywood films. Chapter two is to analyze the masculine cultural attributes of the hero. The qualities such as independence, bravery, rationality, determination, etc. she demonstrates in the film often belong to a male rather a female. Meanwhile, she is given the mission to save others. Chapter Three explores the stereotypical feminine cultural attributes by analyzing her appearance and personal traits in the film, and the special impact of this kind of cultural attributes in the process of shaping the hero and rescuing others. Finally we get a conclusion:This "hero" owns masculine and feminine cultural attributes at the same time. She reinterprets the definition of hero and female hero, and presents the idealized imagination of female’s consummate personality.