Comparing Theseus And The Minotar, By Suzanne Collins

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There are a lot of stories in the world floating from person to person. One short tale can can give a writer the inspiration for a whole series of novels or movies. Take “Theseus and the Minotaur” and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins for example. The ideas are similar in many ways, The Hunger Games story just modernizes them. In an interview with Suzanne Collins, she told us her inspiration for writing the film. She says, “It’s very much based on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, which I read when I was eight years old… In her own way, Katniss is a futuristic Theseus. But I didn’t want to do a labyrinth story. So I decided to write basically an updated version of the Roman gladiator games.” The Hunger Games retells the myth of “Theseus and the Minotaur” by expressing fake love, portraying the main characters as heroic figures, and using the archetypal example of fire. …show more content…

He is taken as food for the Minotaur, the creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull, that lived underneath the king’s palace. Day after day passed until it was his turn to be the monstrous creature’s dinner. Instead of accepting that he was destined to die, Theseus decided that he was not going down without a fight. A similar situation occurred in The Hunger Games where Katniss Everdeen is being taken to be part of a massive killing party. She could have given up, but instead she decided to persevere and win the war for her little sister back at

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