Theseus and the Hunger Games
Theseus and The Hunger Games
What made The Hunger Games a breathtaking story was its influences and similarities from the Greek tale Theseus. A similarity shown in both stories are the two major events, the Hunger Games and the sacrifices for the Minotaur. Another similarity in the two tales is the creation of monsters that plague both Panem and Greece. Lastly, what these two fables have in common is the bravery and courage of their main characters. The Greek myth Theseus was one of the fundamental influences of the incredible novel by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games. “Mess with us and we’ll do something worse than kill you. We’ll kill your children,” was the message that the Crete Empire and the Capitol Government sent out to Greek’s Athens and Panem’s 12 Districts. In the Greek myth Theseus, the son of King Minos of Crete was assassinated in Athens and as retribution for their acts, every 7 years 14 Athenians would be sent as sacrifices or tributes to go into the Labyrinth and be devoured by the Minotaur. In the novel, The Hunger Games, the Districts waged war against the Capitol and as reprisal for their actions, every year 24 sacrifices or tributes would be chosen among the 12 Districts to compete in the Hunger Games. Suzanne Collins sends her tributes into an updated version of the Roman gladiator games, which entrails a ruthless government forcing people to fight to the death as popular entertainment. In both stories, parents were powerless to stop it and just sat by as they gave away their children to be killed. In one story, there are monsters created by Gods and in the other, mutations created by science. Queen Pasiphae of Crete had mated with a bull sent out by Zeus, the God of the Sky, to create the half man – half bull monstrosity of a creature, the Minotaur. The Capitol created many different muttations, mutts were animals that have been genetically altered, bred, or engineered by the Capitol for use as weapons, forms of torture and
What made The Hunger Games a breathtaking story was its influences and similarities from the Greek tale Theseus. A similarity shown in both stories are the two major events, the Hunger Games and the sacrifices for the Minotaur. Another similarity in the two tales is the creation of monsters that plague both Panem and Greece. Lastly, what these two fables have in common is the bravery and courage of their main characters. The Greek myth Theseus was one of the fundamental influences of the incredible novel by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games. “Mess with us and we’ll do something worse than kill you. We’ll kill your children,” was the message that the Crete Empire and the Capitol Government sent out to Greek’s Athens and Panem’s 12 Districts. In the Greek myth Theseus, the son of King Minos of Crete was assassinated in Athens and as retribution for their acts, every 7 years 14 Athenians would be sent as sacrifices or tributes to go into the Labyrinth and be devoured by the Minotaur. In the novel, The Hunger Games, the Districts waged war against the Capitol and as reprisal for their actions, every year 24 sacrifices or tributes would be chosen among the 12 Districts to compete in the Hunger Games. Suzanne Collins sends her tributes into an updated version of the Roman gladiator games, which entrails a ruthless government forcing people to fight to the death as popular entertainment. In both stories, parents were powerless to stop it and just sat by as they gave away their children to be killed. In one story, there are monsters created by Gods and in the other, mutations created by science. Queen Pasiphae of Crete had mated with a bull sent out by Zeus, the God of the Sky, to create the half man – half bull monstrosity of a creature, the Minotaur. The Capitol created many different muttations, mutts were animals that have been genetically altered, bred, or engineered by the Capitol for use as weapons, forms of torture and