A fame que o vento non levou: Paralelismos literarios entre Escarlata O'Hara e Katniss Everdeen

Abstract

The rol of woman exerts a capital importance in  universal literature, so strong that some female prototypes have become canonical references that, in a certain way, managed to mark a trend to disassociate itself from the characterizations most in use,  giving way to a tradition of literary heritage anchored in the changing patterns of social behavior as distinguishing factor. Using as a starting point Butler's (1999) and Wood's (2005) theories of gender representation, this study seeks to bring to light the potential parallelisms between Scarlett O'Hara and Katniss Everdeen, two literary figures separated by time, genres and  narratives voices, but that have points of similarity articulated near of the plot of an armed conflict that is configurated as the item that breaks classic stereotypes of femininity.