1984 And Hunger Games Comparison

The stories of both Winston Smith and Katniss Everdeen in 1984 and The Hunger Games follow the characters through their struggles set in a futuristic dystopian society. In both of the novels, the governments of the societies have an iron grip on their citizens. The people in the countries are afraid to even do so much as think bad thoughts about the system they are governed by, for fear of having their tongues cut off, or worse. There is a clear and defined hierarchy system in both of the dystopian societies, and at the top of each society is a single male dictator who has an immense totalitarian power over the citizens. There is also a large fear inflicting police force in each novel that sides with the dictator and keeps the people under
In The Hunger Games it goes from the dictator at the top, President Snow, then to the people who live in the very wealthy Capitol, next comes the Peace Keepers who enforce the rules of President Snow to the people of Panem. Lastly come each of the 12 districts. District 1 is considered the highest class district and most wealthy, then they each go down in rank with the number. Lastly is District 12, where the people are so poor that they barely survive on a daily basis, and their huts are infested with cat sized rats. The class system in 1984 also goes from a single dictator, to the wealthy and powerful, and then the poor. Big Brother is the figurehead dictator, then comes the Inner Party members, then the Outer Party members, and the Proletariats. Big Brother and the Inner Party are similar to President Snow and the Game Makers (the people who help him develop the Hunger Games). The Outer Party members and the Thought Police are like the Peace Keepers and the people of the Capitol because they are the ones who enforce and practice the rules of the government. Finally, the Districts and the Proletariats on the bottom tier are the classes who are the most vulnerable and get bullied by the police forces the most. The people in the novel are born into these classes and can not move
The books are also meant to warn its readers about what can happen to society if the people allow the government to overstep its boundaries. It is scary to think that some of the techniques the government used in the book 1984 are in America somehow today. For Example, the “endless war” can be compared to America’s “war on terror” today. Both war seem to have been going on for forever, and the enemy is always changing. America went to war with Iraq, next Al Qaeda, now ISIS. It seem as though America will always have terrorist, but will just focus on fighting different groups at a time. There is not much of a difference between the terrorist groups, just like there is not much of a difference between Eastasia and Eurasia, the countries that Oceania is always fighting. Telescreens were used by the government in 1984 to watch its citizens, now days America has a different kind of telescreen. These telescreens are just as scary because they watch citizens without their knowledge. Phones and computers monitor what its owner likes and views frequently and keeps an internal database. Even though the intentions of the technology watching the people is different, it is still not acceptable. Whenever people go in public, there are being watched every step they take by cameras. One has no privacy anymore. This resembles both the society in 1984 and the society in The