![]() ![]() So with The Hunger Games, it would be legitimate to walk away from the cinema thinking any of the following: it's a dog-eat-dog world, you can only trust yourself, better to be strong and good-looking than weak and clever. But in saying that, and in looking for messages, it's easy to be misled by the apparent or obvious resolutions: evil was overcome, human nature is competitive, you only live once – and the like. ![]() Perhaps an answer lies in widening the question to all literature: what role does slaughter play across classical tragedy, renaissance tragedy and in modern memoirs and biographies? The trick is to create a learning device while kidding audiences it is no such thing.
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