Is The Hunger Games an Allegory on Modern Authoritarianism?

[Shadowstar1922]

Guys...maybe, just maybe...

it's a book and just a book.

Jeez, not everything is some big allegory for the corrupt government. Although it really is somewhat ripping off Battle Royale.

because of massive censorship of freedom of speech in the ole days of Europe, symbolism, allegories, tales of all sorts were developed to teach morales without directly saying it, express ideologies without directly saying it, and attack government, social, economic, and even militaristic methods and systems without directly saying it. To give up on that and look at a piece of literature, stolen or not, and refuse its obvious symbolic reference to modern day corrupt and oppressive and central governments is incredibly naive.

"its a book and just a book" is insulting to all the authors and publishers of the past who have together formed so many universal principles of literature that tell one how to easily express ideas that would get you executed at the time. just because its modern day now does not mean everything is all better and that there is nothing major or significant to attack on, nothing new to teach, or nothing inspiring to write about.

It's a teen book.

Doesn't mean it can't reference anything, or have a message.

I'm not saying it doesn't necessarily, I'm saying that if Suzanne Collins really wanted the trilogy to primarily be a criticism of modern authoritarianism she would hardly make her target audience teenagers now would she.

her target only seems for teenagers because of the perspective it was told by, which is by the youth.

[Shadow00]

Also because half the theme was a corny teenage lobe story.

[The Divine Potato]

Only one way to prove this question, ask Suzanne Collins