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The Hunger Games: A Dystopian Society

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The dystopian society in human behaviour is very intricate where leadership is never challenged or changed. The society is expected to implement whatever comes from above without questioning its validity and significance. The film, ‘The Hunger Games’ shows beyond doubt, scrutiny of the totalitarian governments and the concept of social control. This is a traditional society where the leader has all the power in his hands, and the people in the society have very little to say on their own future. ‘The Hunger Games’, is well shown a trilogy that takes place in Panem, a country with 12 districts that are controlled by the Capital. Each year only one boy and one girl from every district are selected to compete in the Capital game called …show more content…

School of thoughts, cultural materialism has often been shown in The Hunger Games. Cultural materialism defines the research strategy that prioritizes material, influences, develops, idolise, and behavioral manifestations. The people in the capital are well to do and seem to have plenty while in the other hand people in the districts are under the yoke of starvation. When Katniss first ride the train, it was seen then that Katniss was witnessing for the first time of loads of food everywhere inside the train. She was used to little amounts of food or even starvation, it was a huge contrast seeing what her districts gets and what the capital has. The biggest cultural materialism in The Hunger Games is the code of their attire. Females and males in the capital were bright, flamboyant colourful clothing in the contrast with the people in the districts, who are in dull and unattractive worn-out clothes. Another fact the capital were not just attractive in clothing but also in facial with makeup on, where as in the districts, no makeup is known. The cultural materialism difference between the rural and urban areas is a vivid cultural differences closely associated with the economic class each one belongs to. The Hunger Games clearly shows a sharp distinction in cultural values and anthropological findings of the two different settings. Katniss Everdeen has lived both side of the world both in ease and

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The Hunger Games movie is a dystopian society. The people in the movie are under an oppressive government and are forced to compete in the hunger games. Twenty four random people are chosen to compete to the death and there is one victor. The hunger games are used as a fear mechanism by the government to control the general population. As a result, the government uses fear to keep the people in line and try to prevent them from rebelling and disobeying them.

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In the Hunger Games, the dystopian government has many ways of controlling the people and ensuring they completely follow the government's rules. The government established many methods to keep their citizens in place. This includes the Hunger Games, a game of 24 contestants, two from each district who fight to the death just as a way for the government to show how powerful they are. There are traditionally four main types of control in dystopian societies, in the Hunger Games the main form of control is bureaucratic control. They create new species of animals, and have electrical fences around the districts, along with many laws to ensure the citizens abide by the Capitol.

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The novel takes place in Panem, a nation made up of an upper-class metropolis known as the Capitol, as well as twelve servile districts that surround it. These districts are oppressed and exploited by the Capitol, which holds a lottery each year in order to choose “tributes” for a competition called the Hunger Games. Through this drawing, the Capitol selects a boy and a girl from each district and forces them to fight within a massive arena until there is only one tribute left alive. The Capitol claims that the event is both punishment for a rebellion from the districts and a memorial for those lost during the revolt, but presents it as an exciting spectacle that is televised all around Panem. The Capitol holds the Hunger Games in order to keep the districts in line, viewing those living in them as uncultured dangers to society who could rebel the moment they feel empowered.

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Suzanne Collins incorporates and reinforces themes of a dystopian society throughout her novel, The Hunger Games. A dystopian society is an undesirable, oppressive and dehumanised society which is the central theme of the novel. This dystopian piece of literature explores social inequality and segregation within Panem, surveillance and monitoring exhibited by the Capitol and the annual Hunger Games. Readers observe the establishment of inequality between social classes and districts which is an integral part of a dystopian society. This is evident through the quote “Gale knows his anger at Madge is misdirected.

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This is the raw, intense story of The Hunger Games and my conclusion on it. This story is written by Susanne Collins, this story is about 12 districts who are all ruled by the Capitol, the capitol has many different ways of punishing these districts. One of the many ways the capitol punishes these districts is by having them select two tributes from each district male and female to fight to the death until there is one winner in an event named The Hunger Games. My thesis statement is that people are being desensitized to violence some examples include: How the capitol’s remorse level is extremely low for the pain and suffering they have inflicted on the people within these 12 districts another example is how the capitol is always in full control

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In the Hunger Games series, a dystopian future is set up. The government of Panem, The Capitol, holds the wealth of Panem giving it the power to control all districts. In order to enforce this theory, they created the Hunger Games. They suppressed the rights of the citizen’s of Panem and selected their children in order to fight each other do death for survival. These games were created to scare the people and show them who was in charge.

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The twelve districts in theory should view the Hunger Games as the necessary tool that keeps Panem from uprising and self-destruction, however, the reception of the Games in the really poor districts clearly shows that the Capitol cannot reform them to think so. Statistically, the poor districts are always the most likely to lose one year’s competition because they lack resources to train tributes and their children are starving. Therefore, the response to the Hunger Games in the poor districts who are on the brink of starvation is the most dramatic. Citizens of districts such as 11 and 12 can only view the Games as injustice because once a child is chosen at the Reaping he or she is evidently doomed to die. There are rare exceptions as the

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This can be seen as Katniss is getting prepped by the Capital stylists, and you witness them vocally declare their opinions that they probably they should have kept to themselves. You can see Katniss's thoughts on the capitol and vice versa. Class struggles are very well represented in the book, with a common example, the capitol being exceedingly rich, and the districts extremely poor. Privilege is another theme in The Hunger Games.

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It can be observed that throughout the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, there have been implication of the set of rules that have been imposed by the government in or the organization which have made the games or the society to function accordingly. It is the way of approach that a person might feel and realize that he is being controlled to an extent that the government or an organization that has a lot of power is over all the things that are happening. Hunger games and the procedure of the games are an example of the government controlling our moves and at the same time monitoring everything that we do because it would take the government out of the power if they stop controlling the moves of the society and monitoring them. On the novel Hunger Games, it can be observed that country named Panem is divided into various groups and every year it could be observed that all the moves that are being done are monitored, it is like a game that people are picked from the districts and are chosen to be a part of the game, that allows the people to

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Expression against Oppression In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the author exemplifies how in spite of the lack of equity, the consequences associated with self-expression prevents verbal defiance. The idea of equity and free speech is explored through the identity of the Avox, the distribution of food in Panem and Katniss’ behaviour. Firstly, the division in Panem prompts the lack of equity, allowing the Capitol to maintain control. When Katniss is served food which appears at the touch of a button, she says, “Days of hunting and gathering for this one meal and even then it would be a poor substitution for the Capitol version.

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The Hunger Games is a fairly popular and typical tale that includes a heroine, courage, and bravery. This story can be read or watched through many different lenses such as a Marxist lens, feminist lens, or even an archetypal lens. Through these lenses one can see as a reader or viewer that this is not just a story that fits into one category, but one that can fit into many. Using the Marxist and feminist lenses a viewer can gain a great depth of knowledge into The Hunger Games story itself.

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The Hunger Games trilogy revolves around universal dystopian themes such as :oppression, rebellion, class tension as well as appearance vs. reality ," Collins creates the world that on one hand seems quite improbable and extreme, but on the other, vividly reflects some specific issues in a real world, like social inequalities, ignorance and passivity of the people" (Macanić 7). Oppression is perhaps the most common and prevalent dystopian theme as it serves as a warning against a highly probable dark future through shedding light on the dark side of contemporary trends such as advanced technology and reality TV-shows .The Capitol 's oppression operates on two levels; districts and individuals. The districts in general and districts 11 and 12 in particular have suffered great injustices at the ruthless hands of the Capitol ; however, there is no greater injustice than The Hunger Games themselves not only are the people of Panem forced to surrender their children as tributes for the Capitol 's citizens viewing pleasure for a crime they had no hand in committing ,but they are also forced to watch helplessly as their children are killed in the most brutal of manners .In Catching Fire (2009) , President Snow decrees that " the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors" in order to get rid of Katniss once and for all ,and to further assert the Capitol 's dominance and quell any thoughts of rebellion(172).

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All of these factors are presented in the novel throughout the experience of Katniss Everdeen in the games. Katniss is a 16 years old teenager from District-12, one of the districts where families suffer to put a something in their empty stomach. Her bad luck leads her to become a tribute in the hunger games, which is an undebatable evidence that the "Hunger Games" novel is a dystopia. To begin with, the hunger games are created by the government of Panem. So basically it is an annual competition where 2 kids - a girl and a boy- between the age of twelve and eighteen, are chosen from

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Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and George Orwell’s 1984 are both dystopian novels, or a book set in an imagined world that is far worse than our own, as opposed to a utopia, which is an ideal place or state. As the focus in the current unit, the Capitol seems like a harsh government, oppressing its people with rules and obviously the cruelty of the Hunger Games. However, another famous book, 1984 depicts a much stricter government that makes the Capitol look like Disneyworld. This page serves the purpose to point out the difference between these two fictional dystopias and to show that the people of District 12 don’t have it too bad in comparison to the citizens of Oceania. The Hunger Games takes place in the country of Panem, the remains

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The Renaissance or Rebirth of the European cultural scene spanned the period between the fourteenth and the seventeenth century and it collectively refers to the collection of paintings, murals, sculptures and other works that were created as part of the revival of the classical past of Europe. During this period artists created various works and masterpieces including art, literature and learning ideas, which in turn gave Europe a new cultural foundation to begin with. The work created during this period had a very distinguished style influenced by the remnants of the Middle Ages.   Italian artists and writers wanted to bring back the values, teachings and the civilized culture and tradition left by the Greco-Roman era.  

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