Video Games Dystopian Analysis
“How does Collins use the genre of dystopian fiction to make a comment on contemporary society?”
Suzanne Collins uses dystopian fiction to warn us of the many things that are wrong in the present world. The Hunger Games is based on a depressing world which we would all hate to live in. Collins brings to our attention some of the problems we have in today’s world such as our obsession with looking perfect, how we waste our time, and how selfish we are.
In our society we waste our time on video games, appearance, TV and computers while there are people who can barely survive and spend every minute of there day trying to keep their family alive. In the Hunger Games the capitol waste there time trying to look perfect because they don’t need to try and survive because everything is there for them when want it where in district 12 you have to fight to survive and never get a break but still don’t get much from it. “What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a …show more content…
President Snow has made the capitol citizens believe they live in a perfect world by not letting them know how the people from the districts live. They look up to President Snow because he supply’s them with food and fabulous parties. “Starvation is never the cause of death officially. It’s always the flu, or exposure, or pneumonia. But that fools no one.” The capitol citizens aren’t aware that the districts aren’t perfect like the capitol and they think that the Hunger Games is just another reality TV show. The main purpose of the Hunger Games is to remind the Districts how weak they are and that their deaths are basically televised entertainment and that they will never win a rebellion. In this sense, the Games are a form of control. “Forcing them to kill one another while we watch, this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another
Suzanne Collins uses dystopian fiction to warn us of the many things that are wrong in the present world. The Hunger Games is based on a depressing world which we would all hate to live in. Collins brings to our attention some of the problems we have in today’s world such as our obsession with looking perfect, how we waste our time, and how selfish we are.
In our society we waste our time on video games, appearance, TV and computers while there are people who can barely survive and spend every minute of there day trying to keep their family alive. In the Hunger Games the capitol waste there time trying to look perfect because they don’t need to try and survive because everything is there for them when want it where in district 12 you have to fight to survive and never get a break but still don’t get much from it. “What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a …show more content…
President Snow has made the capitol citizens believe they live in a perfect world by not letting them know how the people from the districts live. They look up to President Snow because he supply’s them with food and fabulous parties. “Starvation is never the cause of death officially. It’s always the flu, or exposure, or pneumonia. But that fools no one.” The capitol citizens aren’t aware that the districts aren’t perfect like the capitol and they think that the Hunger Games is just another reality TV show. The main purpose of the Hunger Games is to remind the Districts how weak they are and that their deaths are basically televised entertainment and that they will never win a rebellion. In this sense, the Games are a form of control. “Forcing them to kill one another while we watch, this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another