Comparing The Hunger Games 'And Alice In Wonderland'

Suzanne Collins, author of the novel The Hunger Games and Tim Burton, Director of the 2010 film Alice in Wonderland contrast artificial and natural elements in their fantasy worlds. In The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, having to accept the set of rules forced by the Capitol, or rather the Game Makers, or Alice Kingsleigh from the 2010 film, who has to cope with the tyrannical Red Queen of Underland. These confrontations lead to a reflection of self, and the depiction of identity formation and the chaos that come along with growing up. Though the film 2010 film Alice in Wonderland and the novel The Hunger Games don’t seem to have much in common, each adventure uses characterization and imagery to portray dictatorial governmental oppression

Alice having to be the most important piece of the game slays the Jabberwocky. Although it was her clarity that helped her get rid of the incubus she had on her shoulders. “There are six impossible things to do before breakfast,” Alice remembers that her dream wasn’t only a dream, but a memory of Underland from when she was a child. Alice worrying about others and the Queens terror, she was blinded; she did not see the truth that lied ahead and like society, people worry about what others do that they get blinded. Ones one pushes those burdens away like Alice did, everything seems much clearer. Nevertheless, Collins and Burton make aware that even if we all feel like if we live in a modern world, we are still oppressed and in some kind of ways it makes us revolt against this and how social pressure coming from our surroundings influence our identity. Tim Burton describes of a genetic alteration as a criticism of a society. I would consider this a way of contrasting artificial and nature elements as a demand to scrutinize our very own true