The Book and Movie, The Hunger Games, is an allusion to The story of Theseus and the Minotaur from Greek Mythology. The story goes that Minos, the king of Crete, once sent his only son on a visit to Athens, and he was sent by the Athenian king to fight a bull. When the boy died from the fight, the angry Minos captured Athens and declared that he would destroy it unless they completed his bizarre demand: once every nine years, the Athenians had to send a tribute of seven maidens and seven youths, who would then be forced to confront the Minotaur, who would devour them. This directly parallels the story of The Hunger Games. This rewritten version of an old Greek legend shows a theme of how history can repeat itself.
The book The Hunger Games has many parallels to Julius Caesar. For example, the names: Cinna, Caesar, Flavius, Portia, Seneca, Brutus, and Cato are names present in both works. While the characters are not exactly alike, they hold many similarities. Portia is Brutus’ wife in Julius Caesar.
It had seats on two sides. The first two rows of seats belonged to senators and knights. This is a tradition that was also used in Roman theaters. Men and women could freely mingle at the race track, but this was not practiced at the theater and the Colosseum (Entertainment). The Circus Maximus was used for many events, such as The Roman games, gladiator fights, and of course, chariot races.
In the Hunger Games, the government punished the inhabitants after the rebellion, to punish them, the government invented the hunger games. The hunger games is a TV show that makes two people of each tribute go in an arena. In the arena, you need to kill or die. Nowadays, we can’t even think of who could actually invent a TV show like that, but in the Hunger Games, it seems to be totally normal. In the book, the government changed because they became stricter and stricter, they wanted more and more.
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar shows many themes that are shown in many modern day films. The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins and directed by Francis Lawrence and Gary Ross show similar themes. One shared theme between the play and film is private self vs public self. Both Julius Caesar and The Hunger Games illustrate the duplicity of public figures. Julius Caesar takes place in Ancient Rome around 45 bc.
The dystopian behaviour of gambling on the lives of human beings and receiving pleasure via gladiator style entertainment is backed by “To make it humiliating as well as torturous, the Capitol requires us to treat the Hunger Games as a festivity, a sporting event pitting every district against the others”. The irony in this quote emerges from how the idea of a contest or celebration conflicts with the appalling reality of the games. The adoption of irony is substantial because it is a condemnation of systemic oppression and the discrimination of the oppressed classes for the entertainment of the aristocracy. The product of the Hunger Games is a dystopian society as it's unjustified and tyrannical. The government has total ownership over people's lives generating a dystopian society and
The novel, 1984, can be most closely compared with the popular book and movie series, The Hunger Games. Overt comparisons between the two novels include their futuristic approach and the dystopian societies that emerged after periods of war. Additionally, both novels highlight poverty as a highly effective method of control. Building on that method of control, both novels have a strict hierarchy of society used to control the masses.
People across the world have an amazing selection of novels. They not only can read the novels, but can watch the movies. The Hunger Games have become a popular trilogy of this generation. Individuals are known to have loved the amazing and adventurous plot. The Hunger Games novel, as well as the movie, have impacted the world's society, economics, and politics.
Again, this is to get the attention of all of those who oppose them. Also, Katniss is destined to kill the other 23 players, and Odysseus is destined to kill 108 suitors. There are several other characters in the Hunger Games that relate to the characters in the Odyssey, for example, Primrose Everdeen could be considered Penelope or Telemachus, Peeta could be Calypso, but Katniss and Odysseus are the main characters that we focus on. The Hunger Games is considered a modernized version because it involves advances in technology.
Both movies exhibit teenage girls stepping out of their comfort zone, who are considered to be a protagonist, to partake in rituals that are extremely violent. These rituals could potentially be life threatening. Many facets of the main characters reflect their personality differences and similarities. The Hunger Games series is set in a similar world, but where 1984 is a world entirely void of hedonism, Panem is all about fun for the masses in the form of a fight-to-death style game show, somewhere between the Romans ' idea of 'Bread and Circus ' and Takami 's 1996 novel 'Battle Royale '. It has plenty of action and draws its inspiration from a variety of sources, the myth of Theseus, Thomas Hardy, Robin Hood, The Great depression, The Goddess
Chariot races were dismissed in the west late empire, the last remnants resonated in the east, throughout the Byzantine Empire for a short time after. II: Circuses A. Chariot races were the oldest and most popular form of entertainment throughout the ancient Roman world, dating all the way back to the founding of Rome itself. B. Unlike public games, these races were extremely expensive, often being held for profit under highly organized
The book 1984 and Hunger games are like personality twins. In the movie the Hunger Games the government lies to citizens about the reason the hunger games take place. They are betrayed on the tv controlled by the government known as snow as excited and dedicated contestants to the Annual Hunger Games and all it stands for. In reality they were forced to participate. These are children who are scared and dedicated to staying alive.
Even though it was frowned upon, multiple Roman emperors participated as charioteers in the races. If not, emperors were still involved in organizing the races. Much like gladiatorial matches, the Roman rulers used chariot racing as an outlet to gain popularity and portray important cultural values to other leaders (Emmons, 2017). Roman rulers were involved in the chariot races, gladiatorial matches, and attended theatrical performances, all events that were primary sources of entertainment and important aspects of Roman
The Hunger Games: A criticism of a disciplinary society The premise of the Hunger Games has in its short period of publication caught the attention of numerous academia, sociologists and geologists globally for its socio-political commentary as well as focus on punishment and surveillance that hints at a strong parallel to Colonial America and its Government (Renfrow, Lundy: 2013). Mark Thomas in his paper entitled: Law, Law and Power in the Hunger Games describes Panem as a trajectory of panem et cirenses of ancient Rome, as the games exhibit surveillance and reality television as 'a sadistic voyeurism for an effete elite of consumers'- the citizens of the Capitol (2013). In my opinion, Panem is run by a Plutocratic Government under which
I. Introduction The hunger games is an adventure and science fiction novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. This is the trilogy movie, so the first one is the hunger games, next the hunger games catching fire and the last is the hunger games mocking jay. This novel was adapted to the movie in 2012 and directed by Gary Ross and co-written by Suzanne Collins herself. Point of view from this movie was from Katniss Everdeen who lives in Panem, North America.
