Hunger Games Vs Theseus Research Paper

hunger Games Vs. Theseus Theseus and the hunger games are very similar. Both the hunger games and in the myth of theseus tributes are sacrificed to a higher power. It was based on saving a society that was struggling to deal with a higher power. King Minos sent his only son to fight a very dangerous bull, but he ended up dying. King Minos was very upset and now every nine years the people of athens had to send in seven girls and seven boys to confront the minotaur.Their reasoning was more than we are just going to kill you for what happened, it was more along we’re going to kill your children for what happened, so you can suffer what we suffered through. This is similar to the hunger games because there are two people, one male and one female, chosen out of each of the twelve districts to fight against each other in order to …show more content…
They are sent to an arena to basically kill each other in order to gain something. Katniss volunteering herself as tribute is the representation of Theseus volunteering himself as a male tribute a year prior to the summoning of the tributes. The tributes were paraded in front of all the citizens just like the tributes from each districts do.During this time he sees Minos's daughter and she falls in love with him just as Katniss and Peeta fall in love, their survival is out of love as well as their individual strength.Peeta helps Katniss survive because he is in love with her just like Minos’s daughter helps Theseus. Peeta thinks that Katniss is in love with him as well but it was just for show, just as Minos’s daughter believed that Theseus was in love with her but he was not. Both The Hunger Games and the myth of Theseus show just how far human cruelty will reach. The similarities continue in the motive of each individual,Katniss and Theseus. While Katniss is doing this in order to protect her younger sister from being entered into the games because she knew that Prim would not be able to survive, Theseus takes the more