Dorsch's View of Dystopian Environments

The Hunger Games trilogy, written by Suzanne Collins and created into four movies under the direction of Francis Lawrence, provides one example of how leadership and control can be used for public manipulation in a dystopian environment.  Drawing from examples in The Hunger Games trilogy and subsequent movies as well as the second chapter of Popular Culture: A User's Guide by Imre Szeman and Susie O'Brien (2017), I argue that the merge of two ideologies, capitalism and productivity, has resulted in class stratification.  And, surveillance and enclosure of space by the entity/organization/individual in power are used in order maintain this social control.  Capitalism and Productivity  According to Szeman and O'Brien, it was during the "Industrial Revolution" that capitalism took hold of British economic interests (34).  Capitalism is an economic ideology geared toward the attainment of profit through competitive means.  In this system, it was the bourge...