Ethical Dilemma In The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games contribute to the sea of dystopian films, within this film social commentary is exposed in the gruesome scenes of murder preadolescents are forced to commit. In the dystopian film, the totalitarian nation of Panem is divided into 12 districts and the Capital. Each year two young representatives from each district are chosen to participate in The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games are televised throughout Panem and are used as part entertainment ,and as part retribution for a past rebellion. The 24 participants are forced to kill one another until there is one left. During this gruesome act the citizens of the Panem are forced to watch. Social commentary is shown throughout the whole movie as subtle evaluations of the society

In the movie film The Hunger Games, the nation of Panem is a society very dissimilar to our own. This nation once began with 13 districts, until the thirteenth district chose to take action against the oppressors. They were quickly put down, the remaining 12 districts were punished and were forced to fund two participants which were known as tributes , a boy and a girl of young age to the Capitol each year to compete in the Hunger Games which is a brutal fight to the death. The winner of the huger games is then rewarded with a number of rewards, as well as their home district receives an extra amount of food for one year. The government of Panem administrates these annual “games” as a reminder

Materialism: For Better or Worse From an idealistic point of view, materialism is generally frowned upon in the real world, as it makes a person shallow and makes them forget about the value of being a decent human being. However, one could argue that materialism is a vital part of what makes the world go round. Humankind cannot survive without it, as one cannot live on love alone but needs food and other mate-rial goods in order to survive. The object of this essay is to illustrate how this dilemma is reflected in Suzanne Collins’ novel, The Hunger Games, how both the presence and the absence of material goods are what keeps Katniss Everdeen alive in the Games, but that at the same time those material goods are a vital instrument in bringing tributes into the Games in the first place via their indispensability.

The twenty four tributes who have been picked are being watched killing each other by the rest of the world for entertainment. Children killing other children should not be considered good entertainment, normally it would be illegal, but in Panem it is remainder to not cross the Capital. The whole idea of the Hunger games is cruel and even worse that potentially twelve year olds are forced to fight against bigger and stronger eighteen year olds. This is not a fair fight, but the people who made the rules do not care and the adults of the districts have no control over what happens to them or their children. The idea of the Hunger Games is slightly ironic because the capital created new laws guaranteeing peace along with the Hunger games. The games uses starvation, death and murder to remind the citizens to never rebel against them again. The districts are constantly watched by guards and when they step out of line, or try to escape their district murdered or forced to be a servant is their

What is a moral dilemma? A moral dilemma is a man versus self conflict. It is when a character has to perform two different actions, but they can not perform both actions because it is not possible. Authors use moral dilemmas in their writings to retain the reader’s interest in the book or play and to have the reader ask questions. People often face many life altering choices such as right versus wrong or good versus bad. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, John Proctor chooses to die because he does not want to blacken his name throughout Salem and to ruin his sons’ names when they grow up.

In a not-too-distant, some 74 years, into the future the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 13 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games; these children are referred to as tributes (Collins, 2008). The Games are meant to be viewed as entertainment, but every citizen knows their purpose, as brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts. The televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eradicate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch. The main character

The Hunger Games is about a teenager named Katniss Everdeen. She lives in a place called Panem. In Panem, there’s the capitol and 12 districts. The president and Capitol citizens live in the capitol. All the districts contribute something to the capitol like food, or power, and in return, the capitol gives the district's security. Katniss lives in district 12. District 12 provides coal but is also the poorest district. Everyone lives off of small animals they can catch. In order to survive, Katniss hunts on illegal land to provide for her mom and her sister, Prim. Every year the Capitol holds an event called the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is were two tributes from each district come to an arena and

Imagine a world where poverty, violence, and genetic engineering becomes more than world issues but the center of entertainment. In the novel, The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins argues that North America will be demolished. Collins detects that our society is becoming a dystopian world. As the writer Suzanne puts it "history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that [once was] called North America… the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land, [and] the brutal war" (Collins 18). Now, that North America has vanished The Capitol will control the new North America called Panem.

In the novels, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, written by Suzanne Collins, she describes a country that is overcome by many disasters, such as storms, fires, and war that ended the country that used to be North America. In its place, a new country was built, and it was called Panem. Panem was divided into fourteen districts, and one was called the Capitol. The Capitol was the new government of Panem. One day, the thirteen districts decided to rebel against the Capitol; the result of their rebellion was that the first twelve districts were defeated and the thirteen destroyed. Immediately, the government gave their citizens a punishment for their actions. The punishment that the government gave them is called the Hunger Games. At the Hunger

One of the main element in staying alive in the nation of Panem is power. The totalitarian government of Panem is whom holds all the power over the districts to keep them at the top and alive. Because the Capitol holds most of the country of Panem’s wealth, the government there is able to control the people in all of the districts across Panem. The citizens have no say over their lives or what the government will impose on them. The Hunger Games is the display of the government’s power over the citizens of Panem in order for them to revive.

In the Hunger Games, the totalitarian future of Panem is divided into 12 districts and the capitol. They select 24 individuals to partake in the Hunger Games where the participants fight for their lives against their enemies in a government controlled arena. When watching this movie, I started to find many similarities between Panem’s government vs today’s world. I automatically

Every rebellion begins with a spark, and that spark is Katniss Everdeen. The Hunger Games is a novel written by Suzann Collins and it starts with a 16-year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen who is hunting illegally in the woods with her friend Gale. She has to do this because her father died in a mining accident and she is now the head of her family. Katniss lives with her mother and younger sister Prim in a place called District 12. There are twelve districts and the Capitol is the place that is in charge of all of these districts. This story takes place in a future United States, now named Panem due to a large rebellion that occurred years ago, that is known as the “Dark Days “and President Snow is the man in charge of everything and everyone.

It is the mayor’s annual duty on the reaping of the Hunger Games to recount the history of Panem. The country that rose from the dust of droughts, the floods of storms, the ashes of fires and the blood of war. Peace and prosperity were promised to its citizens and outlying districts, but this promise went unfilled, and as a result, the Capitol was met with anger and rebellion from all thirteen districts. In response to the rebellion, the Capitol created muttations, including jabberjays and tracker jackers. The former were created and released into rebel hiding places to gather information and report back to the Capitol. While the latter were strategically put outside and near each of the districts, created to track down the rebels and poison them with hallucinations. Not only did the Capitol have muttations on their side, they also have mountains separating themselves from the outer districts. Having the rebels attempt to scale the great mountains only made it easier to pick them off with airstrikes. Twelve of the districts were put into submission, the thirteenth was utterly destroyed, sending the message of what was to be expected if another rebellion occurred. As if crushed hope, ruined pride and bloodshed weren’t enough, the Capitol created the Hunger Games, where two tributes from each district must be selected to fight to the death for the sake of the Capitol’s amusement. Katniss Everdeen will prove to the Capitol that she is unlike the others. As their oppression of

In the future, the world is split into 12 districts, each district is responsible for providing an essential resource such as food, coal, or even weapons. The districts are controlled by the Capitol who host the annual Hunger Games in order to remind the districts of the consequences of retaliation and remind them of the true cost of war. An arena is set up where the tributes have to try to survive and kill each other off and the last one standing wins and earns food and gifts for their District and is removed from future Game selections. Two tributes are selected from each district to participate in the games and once chosen the only way to get out is if another volunteers as tribute, which hardly ever happens.

The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins, is set in a dystopian country called Panem. This country is split up into twelve districts, and the districts are lead by the Capitol. Annually, the Capitol forces children of the districts to fight in the Hunger Games until only one child is left alive. The Capitol uses the games to show their power and to discourage the people of Panem to start another war. The games are very entertaining to the people of the Capitol, and the whole country is required to watch on television. Even though this seems unusual to enjoy watching children fight to their death, this idea has been around for thousands of years.