Stereotypes Of Women In The Hunger Games

Women are characterized as delicate and servile, but are those the only attributes for females? Books, tv shows, and movies have contributed to perpetuate women into a world of submission. Domesticity, sexuality, and incapability of rational thinking are the usual roles to which females have been conditioned. Well-known classics as Anna Karenina and Breakfast at Tiffany’s depict mediocre ambitions in life and victimization to prejudice. Women have been stereotyped like that for centuries. However, literature and media have turned lately to a very different facet of females: their strength and invulnerability. Katniss Everdeen, the main character of the bestselling book The Hunger Games, undoubtedly, represents the firmness of purpose on women. Katniss is a fearless adolescent, who sacrifices for her family. To save her mother and sister from starvation, she breaks the law by crossing the barrier of the city and hunting. When her sister is …show more content…
Daenerys is a courageous woman who does not hesitate to make the right decisions. As a respectful sign to her beloved husband, she frees him from his vegetative state by smothering. He wanted to die honorably than to live in agony. Showing leadership, she talks to the Khalasar, the tribe led by her husband, and let them know she is willing to lead them into a path of victory, so they kneel and declare their loyalty to her. Daenerys loves her three dragons like her children; however, since justice is her main principle, she chains them in a dark basement to keep them from murdering innocent people. She is a liberator who is not afraid to face an entire army to liberate all the slaves in the city of Astapor, so for her determination and generosity, she conquers a legion of real free men. Daenerys is an inspirational and compassionate woman who overcomes difficulties and turns them into