Gender Roles In The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games in a dystopian novel, in which 24 teens battle to death and these teens are elected at random. The story takes place very far in the future in a place once known as North America. There are 12 districts in the country known as Panem, and one boy and one girl are selected from each district. So there are 12 females competing in the games each year. This rule kind of makes women more prepared to have to deal with dangerous things so there are alot of strong female characters in The Hunger Games. There are arguably more strong female characters than male characters in this novel. This Novel was written by Suzanne Collins who is a female. One of the main reasons she wrote the book was to highlight the sexist and messed up countries

However it may be a little frightening as well because no one is safe in the hunger games. Women, Men, Young teens, even adults are not immune to harm in the hunger games. Sure. Katniss is a bad@$$ and she really can take care of herself but the story in general is tragic. Seeing as women usually want to help each other as much as possible, but in the hunger games, her and 11 girls are forced to battle each other, while there are rich females in the capitol who are betting on them and enjoying watching their skirmishing to the death. This, again, is more of a classist issue than a sexist issue based on context. However, the Capitol and the whole nation on Panem is ruled by a majority of men. For example, Coriolanus Snow, who is the president of Panem, was president for 25 years before the dystopian novel takes place and all the major game makers and media spokespeople are men, we can see this in Claudius and Caesar. Women would not lose any positive qualities if integrated into the prevailing political and economic system, but you have to be corrupt to be involved in the capitols political and economic system, so they would get their hands