This article explores female archetypes in literature (the witch, femme fatale, martyr, and warrior) and how they reflect both resistance and patriarchal fear. Through six subversive strategies and examples from the author’s works (Bella Donna, Us, Women, Counting Crows, Red Wings), it advocates for complex, layered portrayals of women that challenge reductive tropes and reimagine archetypes as sites of narrative and political transformation.