Hunger Games And Theseus Comparison Essay

I think that the Hunger Games and the myth of Theseus is similar because in both stories people were being sent as entertainment and to be killed. In the myth of Theseus, Theseus asked why people were being sent off so his dad told him and Theseus didn’t like it so he went as sacrifice one year and he killed the minotaur. In the Hunger Games, Katniss was out hunting on the day of the reaping and she came home and her little sister asked her why they did the reaping and Katniss said it was for entertainment. In the myth of Theseus, on the day of the reaping he volunteered for another young boy and he took his place just like in the Hunger Games Katniss volunteered for her little sister.
In the myth of Theseus, he went to fight the minotaur to save people from being sacrificed to him as food and entertainment to the king. In the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta are fighting against other people and creatures and Katniss tries to help other people in the arena even though she is there to kill them. Katniss and Theseus are similar in a way because they both thinks it’s wrong to send people off for either entertainment for food and they try to put an end to it by volunteering themselves to put an end to it. Before Theseus went into the maze the princess helped him by giving him string …show more content…
The author of The Hunger Games did some research and she found The Myth of Theseus and she wanted to do something like that and in this time period. In the Hunger Games the author did the same thing as the one from The Myth of Theseus, Theseus and Katniss got tired of seeing young people being sent away for entertainment so they did something about it. Katniss was good with a bow and that's why her and Peeta were able to survive because she could use a bow and Peeta had strength. Theseus was good with a sword and the princess had fallen in love with him so she helped him kill the