Social Criticism in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games Movie Script

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The Hunger Games is a movie by Suzanne Collins. The story of The Hunger Games is about Katniss Everdeen with her fellow Peeta who must fight and compete in Hunger Games made by the capitol. This study aimed at analyzing the social criticism contains in Collins’ The Hunger Games movie script through sociological approach by using Karl Marx social criticism theory. Social stratification, exploitation, class struggle, and individual or group competition were the main focuses of this study. The characterizations, settings and conflicts related to the major character were also analyzed by using Karl Marx social criticism. This study found that the social stratification was reflected between people in districts as the lower class and people who live in capitol as the upper class. Exploitation was reflected on how the districts who must work for capitol without even being paid. The class struggle was on how Everdeen survives in fulfilling her life and how Everdeen struggling in Hunger Games arena. The individual or group competition was reflected by Everdeen and the other tributes fight each other to reach the victory in the Hunger Games.