Abstract
This paper attempts an examination of the concept of the mechanism of power in Suzanne Collins’ trilogy The Hunger Games. The author conducts an analytical approach to the way power is practiced, the measure that helps establish a clandestine of power relations affecting people’s life, mentality of thinking, politics and even economy.The introduction delves to present a definition of power and its concept and how it gets activated and why. Power, according to Collins is the backbone and even the elixir of life upon which the very survival of the authoritarian state headed by President Snow depends. The paper goes on to explicate the need for keeping power in place to secure the government’s grip on power. Mechanism of power as shown in the novel works on so many levels. Divide and rule marks the first and most necessary and effective means as a divisive policy aiming at preventing any potential unity among people who might employ this unity to rise up against the totalitarian government. Media and sport and economic factors are used effectively to ensure government’s control on man’s mind, body and soul and intimidate them whenever needed. Collins presents power and its mechanism as the sole relation between people and government in the novel. Absence of democratic rule in Panem, or, American states, leaves power as the only means to describe the social bond between man and state, a bond that is unilaterally respected and practiced.
Highlights
Michael Foucault, the French philosopher, believes that the image of modern society in some places is a highly institutionalized one (Foucault, 1977, p. 43) conditioned and tempered by indoctrinating it into culture, education, economy and psychological measure
This paper attempts an examination of the concept of the mechanism of power in Suzanne Collins’ trilogy The Hunger Games
Pursuing power regardless of its nature functions to help give strength and maintain and sustain man’s desire for safety and dominance, an approach men of letters felt indispensible to weave into the tissue of their works as a highly esteemed value that can be classified into two categories: constructive or destructive as is the case in Suzanne Collins’ trilogy The Hunger Games
Summary
Michael Foucault, the French philosopher, believes that the image of modern society in some places is a highly institutionalized one (Foucault, 1977, p. 43) conditioned and tempered by indoctrinating it into culture, education, economy and psychological measure. Could be rendered to a mass concentration of people who need and should and have no other choice but to follow dictates set by authority, which through its net of measure and laws affects and restricts all aspects of life and on top of that creates a platform for a relation between man and laws or governor. Pursuing power regardless of its nature functions to help give strength and maintain and sustain man’s desire for safety and dominance, an approach men of letters felt indispensible to weave into the tissue of their works as a highly esteemed value that can be classified into two categories: constructive or destructive as is the case in Suzanne Collins’ trilogy The Hunger Games. This paper attempts to cast a light on the concept of power as seen in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games where man has become the victim of this merciless game infiltrating his mind body and even dreams
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