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Wealth And Power: The Hunger Games
Wealth and Power in The Hunger Games

Professor Kenneth Wong G15

Dorothy SIOK Li Phing LIU Zhe LIN Feng Ian Nicolette CHEN Lixin TAN Yan Zhen

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Introduction

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The Ethics of Power

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How Power is Obtained and Maintained

The Hunger Games is a dystopian fiction in which totalitarianism prevails. Set in the post-­‐apocalyptic nation of Panem, the imaginary society is constructed upon an inordinate
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