Archetypes: A Second Try

[Rebecca]

The class has had a second look at archetypes and the way in which characters embody them in the novel, The Hunger Games. Consider what we have discussed in class about the difference between an archetype and stereotype. Consider what we have discussed surrounding strong introduction and evidence. Write a response to the following: Select one character from the novel, Hunger Games. Select one archetype discussed in class: hero, villain, general male, general female. Make an argument about how the character defies or embraces the archetype you have selected.

[Brigham]

Rather than being a keeper of morality Katniss Everdeen does not worry about breaking the rules of Panem. A keeper of morality would follow and keep the laws of their country or city.

Katniss defies the typical female archetype because she hunts illegally. This is an example of not being a keeper of morality which noramal girls usually are. throughout the book Katniss also shows this characteristic when she goes to the Hob to trade her kills to recieve needed thing for her family which is extremely illegal in Panem.

Katniss is not physically vulnerable. this is another example of how Katniss defies the typical female archetype. To be physically vulnerable means that you would avoid any physical alteractions, or does not pose a threat to anyone. Most girls usually are physically vulnerable, however Katniss is not. For example in the games she has to be stong and defend herself many girls today might not be able to comprehend the fact that they have to kill. Also she is feared in the games, she actually poses a threat to people shes fighting.

[Lilibeth]

In The Hunger Games the character Katniss Everdeen embodies the general male archetype.The general male archetype has the characteristic of protector. A protector is one who makes sure no harm comes to the family, community or society in their care. The protector also has to be the one to make sure of the family's happiness and well being. In The Hunger Games the character Katniss Everdeen embodies the charateristic of a protector after her father's death. Katniss hunts to bring food to the table which is an example of her protecting her family for starvation. Another example of her embracing a protector is whe she steps up to take her sister's place as a tribute in the games.Through out the novel Katniss also shows this characteristic when she defies the option to die in the games by letting the bee's nest fall on the careers so it could give her a chance to run from the watch of the careers. Katniss was just trying to protect herself from death.

[Paris]

Gale in the novel “The Hunger Games,” by Suzanne Collins embraces the Male archetype. Gale embraces the male archetype though the hunter. The Hunter archetype brings food to the family.
An archetype is a universally understood symbol or term or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated. Archetypes have four main characteristics, which are hero, villain, female, and male. In order to not screw up an archetype you have to understand that they are not stereotypes. Archetypes are compared from the beginning of time to our now generation.
The hunter archetype supplies the family with food. A hunter can’t be afraid of killing and blood. Also the archetype must be physically strong enough to hold a weapon, and feel comfortable. A hunter is someone searching for something.
Gale embraces the male archetype though his way of hunting to provide food to the family. Gale would go hunting with Katniss everyday so he could provide food on the table for his family. “Look what I shot,” said by Gale page 7. Gale is what I like to call a pro hunter. “ Let’s fish at the lake,” said by Gale page 10. He knows how to entrap animals precisely, and make sure they are high quality to make a better profit. “ Gales knife slit his throat before he knew what had happened,” Katniss talking about Gale page 269.
Gale is a common archetypical male. “He’s good-looking, he’s strong enough to handle work in the mines, and he can hunt,” said by Katniss page 10. He embraces the archetype more then many of the other characters. He is a superb example of the archetypical male.

[Eden]

In the acclaimed novel by Susan Collins, "The Hunger Games", Cato embodies the villain archetype. Cato embraces this archetypal villain by consistently being single-minded. With single-mindedness comes focus.
An archetype is a constantly recurring theme or motif that is universally used and understood in literature and other art forms. There are many different types of archetypes including character archetypes. The villain character archetype happens to be one of the primary character archetypes.
The villain's focus is usually their only goal, making all else fundamentally secondary. In "The Hunger Games", all Cato cared about was killing Katniss, forcing all else to be insignificant. While other character's lives were coming to a brutal end, Cato couldn't possibly care less. From the very beginning, Cato had a strong sense of hostility towards Katniss, the tribute from District 12. When Katniss received an exceptionally high score at training, which happened to be higher than Cato's, his hate amplified. What made Cato even more mad was all of the attention Katniss and Peeta were receiving. “Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.” Page 261. Throughout the entire novel, Cato expressed hate and even jealousy towards Katniss.
An example of Cato’s single-mindedness is on page 162 when he sees absolutely no harm in letting Peeta join the Careers. He exclaims, "Let [Peeta] tag along. What's the harm? And he's handy with that knife. Besides he's our best chance of finding her."... He is referring to Katniss. One of Cato’s methods was to manipulate and sabotage Peeta in hope of dismantling Katniss of her courage, stamina, and strength.
Cato is a superb example of the archetypal villain. He embraces this archetype by having a selfish, narcissistic mind that only yearns for and desires the satisfaction of causing the death and destruction of others.

[Emma]

In the Hunger Games, Collins goes away from what is commonly known, by assigning Katniss Everdeen the aspects a male archetype would portray. The main characteristic displayed is provider, where she is hunting, gathering and bringing in money to provide for her family.
Katniss Everdeen plays the role of provider in her family. She says on page 5, "As soon as I am in the trees, I retrieve my bow and sheath of arrows from a hollow log." These are the weapons she is using to hunt the animals her family eats as food. She not only hunts for her family, she provides the district with fresh meat in trade for money and goods.
She continues to provide for her ally's during the games. When her and Rue first join as a team she gives Rue some burn medicine to ease some pain. Then she gives her some food to fix her starvation. (Spoiler) Then after Rues unfortunate death she finds Peeta and provides him with food and shelter. All this evidence shows how she defies the common female archetype and embraces the male characteristic of provider.

[Parker]

In the novel "The Hunger Games," ideas about a common archetype are hard to uncover. Author Suzanne Collins defies the common male archetype when describing and writing about Peeta. Throughout the story, Peeta defies the common male archetype while embracing the typical female archetype, showing traits of being emotionally unstable or vulnerable. Peeta shows many different characteristics and traits that would lead the reader to think of Peeta in a female way. In chapter 4 of the book it says "Peeta has been crying and has not tried to cover it up." this is good dectection that Peeta is emotionally vulnerable at the time. When the reader sees this trait, they are able to detect the fact that Peeta is embracing the common female archetypical trait of being emotional vunerable. When looking at this idea through the perspective of investigating archetypes vs. stereotypes, we are able to detect the typical gender behaviors that typically girls cry and boys don't, and if boys do cry, then they do they they are considered weak. The part of this example that makes it a pure archetype is not because of the fact that Peeta is crying, which is a stereotype, but the fact that he is leaving himself open and portraying himself as emotionally unstable for the world to see, which is a female archetypical characteristic.

[Tory]

In the Mocking Jay, the third book of the Hunger Games seriese, President Coin embrasses the villan arhetype. The villan archetype patterns are lacking mortality,driven by selfish motives, destructive,an alluring quality, and can be scarry and disfigured. President Coin is driven by her selfish motives of power and revenge. She hurts and desvese anyone and everyone to get what she desires most.
President Coin deseved Katniss in order to get her to become their Mokcing Jay, the symbol of freedom.Coin makes her believe that the war is for the freedom of the districts from the Capitol. But really she just wants the power. Katniss relaizes this after her discussion witht the improsion Snow. "My failure, says snow, Was being so slow to grasp Coin's plan. To let the capitol and districts destory one another, and than to step in to take power with thirteen barley scrathed. make no mistake, she was intending to take my place right from the begining. I shouldnt be surprized. After all, it was Thirteen that started the rebellion that led to the dark days, and than abanonded the rest of the districts when the tide turned aginsit it. But i wsnt watching Coin. I was watching you, Mocking Jay. And you were watching me. Im afraid we bothh have been played for fools." (pg357) Snow wasnt lying becuase in the end all of the evidence points to Coin. After all with the Capitol down and the districts only Thirteen would have plains to drop parachute bombs. Coin killed Prim not snow. "Trying to shout her name above the roar.Im almost there, almost to the barricade, when i think she hears me. Becuase for just a momment she catches sight of me, her lips forming my name. And thats when the rest of the parachutes go off." (pg.347) Only one person could allow someone as younge as Prim to go out into the front line and attempt to help the wounded, Coin.
Coin holds the villan archetype becuase she is selfishly motivated to be the tyrant. She kills cold bloodidly to become the President. She doesnt feel remorsful what so ever that she killed innocent children in an explosien, encluding Prim. Coin had the whole thing planned inorder for her to with hold all the power. SHe even threatens Katiss to keep her as the perfect Mockingjay.
When Coin annonces Katniss terms to becoming their mockingjay she threatns her, using the tourtured innocents she asked for immunty for against her. "It fallows that any deviance from her misson, in either motivive or deed, will be veiwed as a break in this agreement. The immunity would be terminated and the fate of the four victors determined by the law of District Thirteen. As would her own. Thankyou.- in olther words, I step out of line and were all dead"(pg.58) Coin hoped that Katniss's record for being difiant would allow her to be killed as well as the other tribunes that were took by the capital. Ounce that plan failed she sent a high jacked peeta out to fight in the Capital expecting the blood thirst need that was tourtured into him to kill Katniss. "It wount matter, Peeta tells the rest of us. the president assigned me herself.She decided the propos needed some heating up.- maybe they do. butt if coin sent peeta here, shes decided something else as well. That im of more use to her dead than alive. (pg.261) Coin knew that she would be a threat to her ounce she was in power, the mockingjay had to be killed.
Coin selfishly saw their mockingjay as a threat,her being the villan knew if she didnt keep her word and creat change Katniss would over throw her. Ruining her dream of holding all the power. Ounce everything is put together there is no dening she only allowed hundreds to be killed, tourted, and starved, to gain power and look like a hero. Thats exactly why Katniss killed her instead of snow.

[Sydney]

The female archetype is generally a keeper of morality. They have certain codes and standards that they constantly follow and express. In The Hunger Games, Effie Trinket best embodies this archetype, she is strict with manners and the way she talks and dresses, this shows how she is a keeper of morality.
Effies appearance consists of a modest and classy women. She walks and talks as if she is the Queen on England, standing up straight with poise. She teaches this to Katniss before the interviews. SHe exclaims things like “See like this, I’m smiling at you even though you’re aggravating me.” I took her a while to warm up to Katniss because she was not brought up according to Effie's standards.
She can't stand being late, because it is not to following her standard to be late. You can see thins during the book, , “Up! Up! Up! Its going to be a big, big, big day!” and “ I’ll get him to the table at gunpoint if necessary!” BUt in the end she is always happy as long as people are in line with her codes!

[Sadie]

In the book, The Hunger Games, Rue embodies the female archetype in many ways, one of these being her loyalty towards a select character as she is fighting through the games. Being supportive and trusting, even when all hope seems lost, Rue is a fantastic example of what a loyal friend would be like, especially when the one she is putting all trust in doesn't seem to be trustable to others around her.

As the loyal friend, Rue decides to trust her ally, Katniss, right off the bat. Even before speaking a single word to the stubborn Katniss, Rue seemed to have an unbreakable bond that did nothing but grow as the book wore on. On page 184, Rue decides to point out the deadly tracker jackers to the naive Katniss, even though the accidental death of Katniss could've won Rue the whole game. Yet, her loyalty and friendliness seemed to get in the way, causing her to save her future ally from harm.

Rue is the perfect example of how the general female archetype works in the loyal aspect of it all. Although trusting Katniss could've lead to be a bad choice on Rue's part, she took the risk anyway, putting all her trust and loyalty into the girl, even if it was her life on the line. Rue's examples of being feminine follow the perfect guidelines to the female archetype.

[Joseph]

Katniss, unlike your typical female protagonist, is no mothering caregiver, but a hardy, hunting defender and provider of her family. As would a typical male archetype describe, the defender/provider of the story is the person who does whatever it takes to put food on the table and provide for their family. They look out for and defend their family against any potential threats or dangers.

In the beginning of The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen is immediately shown to take the role as the head of her family. She goes out everyday, risks her life on multiple levels to feed her family, and rarely finds a second of spare time to spend for herself. On the day of the reaping, Katniss doesn't hesitate for a second to take her sisters place for a nearly certain death sentence in the games. Also, within the games, she practically spoon feeds Peeta when he is wounded in the forest, eventually saving his own life while managing to make it out alive herself.

[Sarah]

The defying of the general female archetype in The Hunger Games is found in the character Katniss Everdeen. Her lack of emotional vulnerability, sensitivity to the needs of others, and yearning for peace throughout many parts of the book portray her embracing the general male archetype of being a protector. The archetypical patterns of a protector show the intense love a male has for people he desires to protect and keep safe by putting himself in harm’s way or in the eye of danger to ensure the safety of those loved ones. He may look for any opportunities or sense of safety to keep his loved ones from getting hurt. Katniss’ embodiment of this particular archetypical pattern shows her embracing the general male archetype. The following proves Katniss as a protector.

As Katniss screams out “I volunteer! I volunteer as a tribute!” (Page 22) you see one of the first clues of her proving to be a protector. As she sacrifices her life to protect her younger sister, Prim, she is ensuring her safety. She is ensuring that Prim will stay alive. If that means that Katniss might lose her life, she is still willing to do it. In general male archetypes, we often see self-sacrificing to ensure security for the ones they consider to be their loved ones. This is exactly what Katniss is doing in the beginning of the book with her stepping up to volunteer.

In conclusion, Katniss embraces the general male archetype by being a protector throughout the novel, The Hunger Games. There are many examples and quotes in the text that show her motivation to keep family and loved ones alive. Although Katniss is indeed a female, she rejects many of the archetypical factors and patterns, while embracing the general male characteristics. Yes, there are places in The Hunger Games where Katniss is emotionally vulnerable, showing her sensitivity and yearning for peace and love, but overall, her embodiment of the archetypical pattern of being a protector proves her to embrace the general male archetype.

[Justin]

In the novel the Hunger Games,the charecter Katniss Everdeen embraces the male archertype of being a protector. A definition of an archetype is a certain, typical person or thing. And a proector is someone that has the saftey of the people they are responsible for one of their top priorities.

At the begining of the book it talks how Katnis is the leader of her family after her father was disceased and how she protects her family from poverty and hunger. She spends basicly all of her day hunting just ensure that her famlily can live.

Another point in the book where Katniss embraces a protector archetype is when she steps in for Prim at the Reaping. She saves Rues life indefinetly at that point and puts hers in grave danger.

[Brooke]

Some characteristics of the cultural female archetype are keeper of peace, and emotionally vulnerble. These attributes are more often times than not found in our everyday women. In the novel "The Hunger Games" Katniss Everdeen defies the female archetype.

In its place she emoides the cultural male archetype. THe main trait that Katniss emraces of the male archetype is teh protector by being a gaurdian to those she is clostest to.

first portraying traits of an antagonist by being cruel and ruthless, soon redeeming herself and truly becoming the protagonist in the novel "THe Hunger Games."

[Ellen]

Katniss Everdeen from the novel "The Hunger Games" embraces the villain archetype. The main characteristic she follows that is found in the villain archetype is the need or desire to harm and kill others. She shows examples of this in multiple places in the book, here are a few examples.

On page 134 Peeta had just admitted his love for Katniss during an interview. Katniss felt by during the he made her look week. In a rage Katniss, " slammed my palms into his chest, causing him to lose his balance and he fell and crashed into an ugly urn filled with ugly fake flowers. The urn tipped over and shattered into hundreds of pieces. Peeta lands into the shards, and blood immediately flows from his hands." Katniss had no desire to let him explain why he did this, she just wanted to get revenge and hurt him.

When Peeta joins and alliance that was made to kill everyone else in the game. Katniss feels betrayed and thinks to herself on page 162, "I will eagerly watch the night skies for signs of his death if I don't kill him myself." Katniss wants to kill Peeta just because he made this mistake. She wants him to die or kill him herself.

After Katniss killed off many of the careers with a hive of tracker jackets, she takes the bow and arrow form Glitters dead hands. She now feels so powerful with this bow on page 197 she thinks to herself. " I feel like I can fight now. If Cato broke through those tress right now, I would not flee, I would shoot. I find I am actually anticipating the moment with pleasure." Not only is Katniss planing on killing Cato but she is excited and wants to kill him. She enjoys the thought of hunting him.

These examples show not only is Katniss killing people to survive but she is all so harming them out of rage and she finds joy in it. So this is why the main character of "The Hunger Games" Katniss Everdeen, embarrasses the villain archetype.

[Nate]

Throughout the novel, "the Hunger Games" the character of katniss everdeen is forced to defy the general female archetype. Her father was killed and her family nearly starved to death when she was just a young girl. She had no one to take care of her from then on, so she had to learn to take care of herself, to hunt and gather and trade for food and cloth and other things that were essential to survival. From this point on, Katniss became a hard, rough, strong character whos only thoughts were of her family. She wasnt aloud to be girly and childish like her sister Prim, she was forced to become a strong masculine character survive in the harsh enviornment that she had been born into. On page # 6 Katniss says, " so I learned to hold my tongue, and to turn my features into an unreadable mask". From just a young age, Katniss was forced to do this, but she embraced it because she knew that it was what must be done if her and her family were to survive in district 12.

[Nate]

And so to close my arguement, Katniss was forced to become a strong masculine character because of the death of her father and the enviornment that she lived in. She was forced to adapt so that she would survive with her mother and her sister in district 12. Katniss was forced into this at an early age, to defy the female archetype and become that male character that her family so desperatley needed at this time.

[Ellie]

The cultural male archetype embodies the characteristic “protector” as does Katniss “The Hunger Games”, by Suzanne Collins. Katniss embraces the male archetype by protecting her family and loved ones.“I protect Prim every way I can” -Katniss Everdeen, p. 15. Katniss protects her sister, Prim Rose, as the male archetype would, by volunteering herself in Prim’s place in the reaping.

[Genny]

In the novel "The Hunger Games" Suzanne Collins embodies Cato with the Villain archetype. An archetype is a repeating pattern throughout an extended period of time. Througout the novel it shows many different villain characteristics like violence, revenge, and the desire to kill.
On page 224 it states"He held him in a tight headlock and jerks his head sharply from side to side." Instantly a bomb goes off. Cato is out to kill Katniss Everdeen and anyone that gets in his way. Throughout the book you constantly see cato using violence in many ways. An eaxample of that would be on page 217"When we find her I kill her in my own way, and no interferes" This shows that he desires to kill Katniss in a painful and slow death. When Katniss is up in the tree Cato says"he seems to intentionally be avoiding my gaze as he polishes his knife with his shirt and says no pushing awawy the bow and says no I'll do better with my sword."pg.182 This shows that he is planning some cruel and viscous way to kill Katniss. Cato shows many other examples throughout the book about how he embraces the villain archetype and the characteristics.

[Clarissa]

The general male archetype has many characteristics, one of them is a protector. A protector will go into harms way to keep their family, friends and community safe. If the protected sees any of them in danger they will have the desire to help. In Susan Collins novel, the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen is described as a protector instead of the embracing the prototypical female.

There are multiple times in the book when Katniss puts herself in harms way to protect her family and friends. During the reaping Katniss steps forward to protect Primrose, her younger sister, at the Reaping. Page 22, "I volunteer as tribute" by doing this Katniss is putting herself in harms way to protect someone else.

Katniss definitely embraces the male archetype and defies the female archetype. She is outgoing in everyday she can be to protect and be there for those around her. She will do anything to make her community safe.

[Nathan]

Peeta Melark reflects the archetype of a villain. A character that has the archetype of a villain will manipulate others for power.

Katniss always thought that when Peeta was being nice he was trying to get her to fall for his strategy, which was to make Katniss fall in love with him so it would be easier for him to win the games. This would help Peeta if Katniss and he ran into each other; Katniss would be slow to kill Peeta because she would think that Peeta really meant what he was saying about him being in love with her. Katniss thought she had figured out Peeta’s strategy and pretended to condone the gestures of Peeta.

For example on page 72 when Peeta compliments Katniss about her appearance and Katniss says to herself “Don’t be so stupid Peeta is planning how to kill you” “he is luring you in to make you easy prey”. Another example further into the story when they are in the games, Peeta joins the careers. “I almost fall out of the tree, the voice belongs to Peeta”. With Peeta being a sketchy guy from the start this confirms Katniss’s suspicions that he was strategizing against her from the start. with the examples from the text, that is how I think Peeta reflects the will manipulate others for power trait of the villain archetype. Peeta tried to make Katniss fall in love with her, manipulating her, to try to have an advantage in the Hunger Games.

[Sydney]

In Suzanne Collin's novel, The Hunger Games, the bubbly and optimistic character of Effie Trinket, fully embraces the female archetypical role. It's not just the fact that she's a girl that allows her to fulfill the archetype, but her ability to be a keeper of morality, even if it makes her seem out of place in the seeing that she's been portrayed. Her ability to uphold moral codes by following the social and moral rules and laws are all a part of keeper of morality, which the female archetype embodies. Collins depicts the character of Effie Trinket with such a strong awareness of what is socially and morally unacceptable that it is hard to ignore all of the numerous examples that can be easily identified throughout the novel.

Two of the numerous examples of Effie Trinket's role as a keeper of morality are that she alters her style and speech to follow the rules and laws of Panem. Effie Trinket always has a bright and stylish wardrobe to follow the customs of the Capitol, like when she wore her "spring green suit" to the reaping day in District 12. Despite the fact that the reaping is a morbid event, because it was a law of the Capitol for finer dress to be worn, Trinket wears the brighter color as a symbol of her willingness to do as she's told and uphold the morality of the event. Her sometimes-contradictory outfits match her carefully monitored way of talking about the Capitol and the other Districts of Panem.

Her cautious following of the social guidelines, like how she brushes off the idea of Katniss, the female tribute of District 12 and the main character of The Hunger Games, knowing an Avox to protect herself and those around her from being punished by the Capitol is one of the many ways she obeys the rules about what is acceptable and unacceptable in the social ladder of Panem.

[Ashlon]

Katniss Everdeen is a young 16 year old girl, in the book "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins, who has been through things that are unimaginable. Katniss Everdeen was put directly into the place of her father the day he died and ever since that day Katniss had not stoped protraying the general male archetype, wich is mostly known as the provider of his/her family. Katniss does many outstanding and remarkable things during her young adult life, but one of the most important would have to be the fact that she is the provider of her family.

Katniss Everdeen does everything she can to provide for her family. She Does everything she can. She constantly works her hands to the bone to provide food and money for her younger sister and her extremely depressed mother. Katniss hunts daily, with her friend Gale, to provide the food and nutrition for her family. When Katniss collects her kill she takes the skins and extra meats into the town of District 12 and sells them to markets. The money that Katniss collects she uses to buy other nesissary things for her sister and mother.

Suzzane Collins does an excelent job at explaining the way that Katniss embraces the general male archetype of being the number one provider for her very depressed mother and her younger sister Prim.