The Hunger Games: A Personal Analysis

My personal experience and the books I have read provide cogent examples that not only support my opinion but also have influenced me to come to my conclusion on the psychological aspect of mankind’s essential illness. The plot of The Hunger Games revolves around killing other people to escape alive. Much like the boys on the island, the characters in this book follow the same descent into savagery to kill to survive instead of hanging onto the last bits of civilization inside them by following their morals. They completely abandon civilization for the sake of their survival much like Jack does in Lord of the Flies. In addition, whenever I get angry, I have a similar experience. Though it is not for my survival, I sometimes get carried away

with my anger and manage to stop myself before hitting anyone else, bounded by society’s expectations and my expectations to live peacefully in a civilization.
In The Call of the Wild, the main character Buck, a dog, starts off being friendly and civilized when he was with his first owner. However, Buck is eventually sold to a group of thieves and abused by his new owner because he despised being tied up, resisting by trying to untie himself and attack him. Eventually, Buck goes to the Far North and learns to quickly adapt to the harshness of nature for the sake of survival. Because he wanted to survive, Buck falls from his civilized state to a savage one of relying on his primordial instincts to help him survive at all costs, going as far as to kill his rival. This proves, like The Lord of the Flies, that the instincts savagery comes from the inside. Also, All Quiet on the Western Front has a similar idea as well. In the book, the soldiers who were previously leading normal, teenager lives were eventually dragged into the German army due to World War I. Like Jack, they all embrace savagery for the sake of surviving the battlefield, killing the enemies without bending down to civilization’s morals. These lead me up to the point where I believe that the psychological point of view is that everyone is evil on the inside who wants to quench their desires. Society’s expectations hold down that evil until civilization is completely erased from a person’s mind, as seen in Lord of the Flies, other books, and my life experience.