Abstract

A myth is considered as a manner of communication or a missive that is not an object, an idea, or a concept, but a creative manner of making sense in human existence. The matter of making sense of a given world is the main circumstance of human actuality. So, myth offers a great influence and contribution to make a sense of human history. Moreover, a myth on which social consciousness is based provides the inner world of mankind to meet the outside world. From a literary point of view, mythical literature reflects the way people recognize truth, but mythical signs have a significant place in the creation of social truth. Accordingly, social consciousness is only personified in social performs, thus myth is interweaved with these performs. Myth can be seen as an archetypal way to interpret a human’s psychology and subconscious, so all realities in the lifecycle, particularly life and death, are matters of mythologies. Traditions and myths have the mystery of human existence and simultaneously they signify the first products of creative production, forming the starting point of artistic and artistic narrative fictions coming after them. Myth forms the starting point of innovative and artistic narrative fiction coming after myth. As such, myth is seen as the seeds of the future that will overflow and it uses these literary formulas of the artistic prodigy of the individuals and the conscious artist talent of society. Because of that, fiction is under the influence of mythology as one of the most operative and effective forms of art in the social and cultural field. As a result, all cultural features shape the same socio-cultural frame undergo the production process according to the power of each other. Therefore, it becomes an interesting and challenging spot for many women writers of the modern age; one of these writers is Suzanne Collins (1962-). This study is an attempt to trace the mythical abilities that affect the female protagonist in Suzanne Collins’ dystopian fiction, The Hunger Games, in the modern age.