Mulheres distópicas: representações femininas em Nós e Jogos vorazes

Abstract

This paper aims to compare the representations of women in the novels We, by Yevgeny Zamiátin, and The hunger games, by Suzanne Collins, to examine how women are represented in dystopian literature and whether there are significant changes in these representations in the 20th and 21st centuries and how they influence the construction of the dystopian novel. The study was based on feminist and cultural theories, which helped to understand the processes of oppression and resistance present in the characters O-90 and I-330 in Zamiátin's novel and Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins' narrative. The study concludes that, in classic dystopias, women were often portrayed in a stereotyped and unimportant way, despite being essential to the development of the plot, while in more recent works they play a leading role, both in the writing and as characters. However, they are still held responsible for the mistakes they make and suffer greater repression than men. Finally, by placing the characters side by side, it was possible to understand that women are of paramount importance to the construction of dystopia as literature, because they are the most critical characters within the plot, who make it possible to fulfill the dystopia’s premise: to build critical thinking in its reader from an exaggerated reality.