The Capitol Domination of Power In The Hunger Games Novel By Suzanne Collins

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Wijayanti, Novia Indri (2019) The Capitol Domination of Power In The Hunger Games Novel By Suzanne Collins. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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This research discussed the social class relations in the novel The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins. The purposes of this study explain how the ruling class control the entire population even they can control the society to obey the rules and how the population reacton toward the domination of the ruling class. This novel tells about how the Capitol people make District residents obey their orders and the various systems implemented in the city of Panem. This research used Marxism theory especially in the domination of power by the ruling class. The method used is descriptive qualitative. The author uses qualitative methods to explain the ways of Capitol controls the District residents and the reactions of the District residents over the domination in the city of Panem. The author takes several quotes from novels related to the Capitol system and the reactions of the District residents. The result of this study showed that the ruling class has a variety of ways to maintain their power. First, they created the hunger games. The hunger games used as a tradition, manipulated regulations, threatened and scared the residents of the District. Second, Capitol installed electric fences in each District area. The Capitol did not want District residents to hunt in the forest and met other District residents. Then third, Capitol gave prizes to the winners of the hunger games. This prize is the Capitol's way of raised the ambitions of the participants to kill other participants. The Capitol also used gifts as a celebration of the hunger games and they could controled the participants. Then there were some reactions from the District residents. There are two groups of residents of the District. People who obeyed the Capitol's orders and those who disobeyed the Capitol's orders. They obeyed the rules of the hunger games, followed every Capitol order, gave their children to the Capitol as participants in the hunger games and some of them wanted assets. Some of the District residents violated the rules. They entered the forest, hunted animals in the forest and used three-finger greetings to show the Capitol's refusal and mistakes.