Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins Picking up from the last book in the end of The Hunger Games where Katniss and Peeta were going to eat the poisonous berries so they could both will. Doing that little stunt in front of the Capitals face makes President Snow furious, because it shows a weakness of the capitol. The President decides to visits Katniss and tells her that he doesn't believe that she and Peeta are actually in love, and knows that if the public finds out, then it will make the capitol look even worse than it already does. He also knows that Katniss is not in a real relationship with Peeta, because apparently someone was spying on Katniss while she was in the woods getting kissed by Gale. (Talk about bad timing) Therefore the President tells Katniss that she and Peeta have to get married to prove him they are really so madly in love as they had claimed.
Austin Steere 3AC 1: Climax: Katniss holds out the berries, threatening to kill both herself and Peeta, thus urping the power of the Gamemakers. 1: I think she had feelings for Peeta (even though she didn't admit this to herself). But the main reason was that she wanted to protect him just like she did with Prim, and tried to with Rue. She is a lioness by nature and her instinct is to protect but also to protect herself. Remember when she found Rue speared and she first asked "are there more?"
The similar fear of the state's abuse of power and technology at the expense of human individuality present within these novels speaks to the relevance of these novels within their historical context and their usefulness for awakening people to the horrendous consequences of their ignorance. Eventually all the alienated characters come before some prophesising hand of the government who is ready to rationalize the right and duty of the government to possess such control over its people. In 1984 this is during the torture of Winston for his crime of not loving Big Brother. Orwell then reveals the horrors of an advanced dystopia through O’Brien such as the death of the individual, "Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind.
In Shakespeare’s time, the obedience of the natural order was absolute, and where it was disrupted, disastrous outcomes followed. This idea is clearly reflected in his play, Macbeth, through the themes of betrayal of the rightful king by Macbeth; the reversal of gender roles, particularly by Lady Macbeth who manipulates and controls her husband; and finally the supernatural powers that conflict with accepted beliefs and which dictate the actions and destiny of Macbeth. A disruption of natural order leads to catastrophic consequences, and ultimately bring about Macbeth’s and Lady Macbeth’s downfall. Shakespeare examines the dire consequences brought about by the betrayal and murder of King Duncan paralleling a disorder in nature. The widely accepted theory of the Great Chain of Being highlighted royalty as a divine right from God and any aspiration to attain the throne was a sin.
Also in the text, Captain Ebenezer Falcon says that “the mind is made for murder,” which foreshadows, while showing more Buddhist traces, that man is subconsciously bad natured. Johnson implements the idea of dualism throughout the text. Dualism denotes a state of two parts. On page 98, dualism is bluntly noted as being the “bloody structure of the mind.” This line ties man, blood, the mind, and murder all together. Man’s desire’s of the mind encourages competition among humans, and ultimately; murder (the hunt for blood).
One important theme of the play “The Crucible”, written by Arthur Miller, is revenge, as is shown in the jealousy and hatred that turn people in the Puritanical township of Salem against each other, resulting in the deaths of many innocent lives. For such an idea to be made effective to the audience, the playwright chiefly relies on the characterizations of Abigail Williams, the Putnams as well as Reverend Paris, who manipulate the prevalent superstition as well as people’s ignorance to successfully carry out her malicious revenge. Abigail Williams, a strong-minded young woman, is committed to her personal vendetta as she has a strong physical desire for John Procter. She is a vindictive and ruthless character, and will not hesitate to put anyone to death if they stand in her way of revenge. This vindictive hatred from Abigail soon prompts a witch hunt involving many innocent people: “Twelve have already hanged for the same crime.” While many panics, John Procter knows this from the start ; “this is a whore’s vengeance”.
We speak of destiny or fate, as if it were some external force or moral order, compelling him against his will to certain destruction." Most readers have felt that after the initial crime there is something compulsive in Macbeth's murders; and at the end, for all his "valiant fury," he is certainly not a free agent. He is like a bear tied to a stake, he says; but it is not only the besieging army that hems him in; he is imprisoned in the world he has made. Northrop Frye stresses the connection between the witches and fate: The successful ruler is a combination of nature and fortune, de jure and de facto power. He steers his course by the tiller of an immediate past and by the stars of an immediate future.
In part of the play, Macbeth even admits to his ambition, "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other." As a result, many decisions were influenced negatively. His choice to kill the king was made too quickly, and had begun the snowballing effect of killing innocent people. After the witches had told Macbeth the four apparitions, he felt as though Banquo needed to be killed, since he was in the way of Macbeths becoming king. Other Characters in the play greatly influenced Macbeth.
His struggle against his totalitarian government represents the struggle of human nature against the automaton, the individual against the mass as a whole and freedom against necessitarianism. In taking away Alex’s free will to be violent, the State is a greater evil than Alex. Turning him into a will-less shows that the State considers human nature to be utterly
Macbeth was a noble Thane and a loyal hero before, but his desire is aroused by the vicious witches. He even has inner conflict and hesitates for committing the treason, but he cannot resist the desire and the urge of his wife, ‘I’m settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.’ Macbeth finally murders the king just like what his wife asks him to do. ‘I go and it is done.’ He says, ‘The bell invites me. Hear it not, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.’ The conflict between Macbeth’s desire and King Duncan encourages Macbeth to murder the king and brings the chaos to his country because the villainy he makes breaks the chain of nature levels.