The Hunger Games: A Comparative Analysis

Now see how Hunger Games are very unalike in seeing the whole meaning of love, relationship, and status. Hunger Games shows how staying alive and surviving are the main factor of the novel. Other than that it shows the way young lives are exploited in a life-or-death reality show that gratifies the voyeurism of the indulgent residents of the Capitol. There is a way of thinking that love and violence and survival are commodified for the viewers who watch the games. It is only for amusement that pleases the people, in a way this shows how young people in that particular setting could not even feel a normal experience where they would have feel love, anger, and bittersweet things. Katniss shows this by neglecting the whole meaning of falling in

For Romeo and Juliet it depends how a certain individual’s point of view on the story itself. If for certain that Romeo and Juliet’s action was wrong it could be that people should not believe in young love, love is complicated and there would be an impulsive behavior when young people are in love. Whereas in the Hunger Games it is all about survival and how love withstand obstacles, in this case Katniss manipulates love to gain her survival and its very important to see that true love does not really impacted the story line of Hunger Games. Romeo and Juliet speaks to the audience as this cautionary tale in which young love are not well nurtured or even matured yet, and it will lead to a devastating ending. However, seeing it in a different perspective young love has its tenacity to withstand everything and the immense believe that both couple had to face the problem was very rich. In Shakespeare’s play love is what drives Romeo and Juliet to be happy and content. Seeing the outcome it is indeed a tragedy to see both lovers died by committing suicide. In real life it may happen and that love could out gun ones reasonable mindset. People could be crazy when they are in love, people tend to take actions that are unreasonable to which it could harm them both physically and mentally. Whereas in the hunger games it is quite similar but in this case love could be the

An interview with Suzanne Collins was conducted and she was ask to explain how the Hunger Games is connected with TV especially reality TV. She responded by saying how the whole concept of hunger games is to show how in real life mass-media are the same, they are manipulative and that every bit of it are just wrong and unethical. Collins states “I think some of those shows can succeed on different levels, there’s also the voyeuristic thrill, watching people being humiliated or brought to tears or suffering physically” (Hudson). In a sense by approaching from Collins background an assumption could be made that she wanted to show how nowadays mass-media are very controlling by giving what the audience wants. Katniss shows by being a part of a collaborative love with Peeta, to give what the audience wants. An exact parallel with what the world is now, 21st century is portrayed more cynically by having no pure and sincere affection for each other. Shakespeare on the other hand was a bit different when back then love was embrace fully and no reality TVs were made and during that era the plot of every play might just as well be about