#text comparison

How to Compare Texts in GCSE English: Literature and Language Exam Tips

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses (The Dangerous Liaisons) – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins

Comparison:

The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) shows the role of the femme fatale through a 16/17 year old young woman. She fights for the rights of the peoples of her district and provides for her family in the best way she can, breaking the law and hunting in the woods outside the district boundaries. She is depicted as an independent woman who is not afraid to be herself and point out the unfairness and poor treatment of her people. She understands that things need to change and she will impulsively fight for that change no matter the cost.

The Hunger Games also depicts the femme fatale character in its original form of ‘deadly female’ with Katniss being unafraid to kill the other contenders in the games for revenge, safety or anger. Yet her character is also a reluctant heroine who does not aim to be a freedom fighter but merely a survivor, and yet by her actions becomes a symbol to the freedom fighters.

  Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Pierre Choderlos de Lanclos) shows a different femme fatale character that subverts my perception of the femme fatale partially because the novel is written within the social constructs of the period it was written (1782). The character that most presents the ideals of the femme fatale is the Marquise de Merteuil, an independent and widowed woman. This woman is shown as a strong-minded aristocrat who enjoys trickery and seducing men. The Marquise is a scheming woman who is determined to corrupt the innocent heroines of the novel, Madame de Tourvel (already married) and Cecile de Volanges (in a convent), and uses her past lover the Vicomte de Valmont to undermine and ultimately dishonour and ruin the lively hoods of these younger women.

The Marquise uses seduction and malice to attain revenge on the Vicomte and to disrupt her society. She sits behind all of her schemes like a puppet master, simply ordering her puppets around and attempting to hold tightly to all of the strings.