Lara Kill Characters

Furthermore, Lara has such a deep personality in this game. Her violence is not something that is closely associated with female protagonist characters. As explained by Friedberg “The game can be seen almost as a violent coming of age” (82). During the onset of the game, Lara learns to survive, and hunt to stay alive with her fellow companions. After the militarized group on the island kills off most of them, Lara has to learn to kill in order to save her friend Sam from the Solarii. She is transformed throughout the game into a “hardened warrior, a far cry from the woman at the beginning of the game” (Friedberg 83). This dynamic change in personality of Lara is a phenomenon that allows her to kill anybody in order to save her crewmembers, namely Sam. This trait of killing is not associated with female characters and shows that even women can …show more content…
Lara’s crewmembers continually say to her they would have been proud of all that she is doing after she does something that is of heroic status, but she is fearful of not being able to live up to her parents expectations in her field of study. Friedberg explains, “ [those] aspirations are part of what drives her forward through the narrative”(38). As the game begins, she is terrified and aggravated because she is stranded what looks like a deserted island. By the end, however, the Solarii are frightened by her and she is then in charge of a crew to help rescue her friend Sam. With all these challenges that she faces throughout the game to find her friend, she is determined to accept them and find a way to get to her friend. This is the same as male protagonists, as she rises from being powerless to holding a place of power and authority, commanding her group against Solarii. Lara holding a position of power shows the audience that instead of holding a secondary role, even as the protagonist, females hold the same position as men