Essays on The Hunger Games

In what ways have contemporary action films such as ‘The Hunger Games’ represented female characters as being more powerful? To what extent and why does this appeal to young female audiences? Over the years, the representation of women in the media has changed dramatically. Due…

Suzanne Collins Challenges the Norm of Feminism The literary genre of Science Fiction seems to contain a greater amount of male writers than female writers. Authors such as H.G Wells, Jack London, Aldous Huxley and Ray Bradbury have all created very dynamic characters though some…

Contemplating A Modest Proposal Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games and Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal both tell the story of a suffering land, and what characters do or could do to try and survive in the world the they are born into. Katniss and Peeta…

In what ways have contemporary action films such as ‘The Hunger Games’ represented female characters as being more powerful? To what extent and why does this appeal to young female audiences? Over the years, the representation of women in the media has changed dramatically. Due…

Contemplating A Modest Proposal Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games and Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal both tell the story of a suffering land, and what characters do or could do to try and survive in the world the they are born into. Katniss and Peeta…

The future of the United States, according to Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games novel, is filled with bleak, rigid and never-ending misery. In other words Suzanne Collins picked a world in the future, formally North America but now called Panem that has many dystopian properties. Dystopia…