12D Cover Work - Monday 7/12, p1/2

The world of Mockingjay.

The world of Mockingjay article talks about the dystopian representation of capitalist
society in the latest Hunger Games film.  There is a vital ideological element to the way Panem is run, those in power control ideas, as well as resources. The world is caught under the dictatorship of President Snow who invests his ideas and beliefs into the game. He controls people that challenge his views by spending fear, this is done through propaganda and the media. According to Marxist theory, the people will always find a way to rebel and to resist power. through organising and connecting in other ways, such as citizen journalism, social media and the use of symbols – which is what the story of Mockingjay revolves around. At the beginning of The Hunger Games trilogy, Katniss was merely aware of the media surrounding her, but now she is learning how to manipulate them.


Understanding ideology 'they live' 

The dominant ideology in Britain do not remain the same they change as new ideas develop, people discuss them, and they enter the mainstream.These ideas appear ‘natural’ and accepted without question or argument. Unlike some other cultures or regimes, in 21st century Britain it is not forced upon us through violence or coercion by government or the military. These ideas are considered a ‘given’,an obvious and unspoken set of values and beliefs that we accept and follow. They system, part of the social system which shapes and forms our identities, and makes us who we are today. An ideology is a set of ideas about how things should be, and how people should behave. Hegemony is the ability of the
dominant class to project its own way of seeing the world so that those who are dominated by it, accept it as ‘common sense’ and ‘natural’. is Slavoj Zizek suggests that pleasure and the self are our only concerns in the 21st century. He argues that we are in a new global era where we cannot see how massively we are dominated by the elite 1%.