Unfolding Modern Social Violence in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games

Abstract

Suzanne Collins is one of the significant television writers penning for especially young adult audience. On capturing the exact pulse of the modern youth she has produced novels encapsulating action, adventure, mythology, science-fiction, romance and philosophy. The Hunger Games trilogy is one among them that unveils a dystopian adventurous story casting a teenage girl as its lead. The fiction shows light on various areas like class difference, capitalistic government, psychological issues, media violence, poverty, oppression, starvation and effects of war. The Hunger Games trilogy is set in Panem once called North America, after a major disaster has struck. The trilogy can be considered as dystopian literature, as it narrates a tale about a society which has deteriorated over the years into a corrupt and malicious state. The article aims at exhibiting the various aspects of modern social violence as portrayed in the novel. It is also intended to argue that The Hunger Games trilogy is a critique of contemporary so called modern society.