The Hegemony Games
The Hunger Games creates a world of inequalities between race, gender, and socio-economic status; contributing to an overall cultural hegemony. An image stating the definition of cultural hegemony, as well as showing a visual interpretation of its meaning. 1 Types of Hegemonies: Jacob M. Appel once said "The most dangerous ideas are not ones that challenge the status quo [but] are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in the cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all." 2 This quote points out that much of what creates a cultural hegemony has been indoctrinated into society via certain ideologies.We can see this in the Hunger Games novels, with most obviously the annual gladiator-style games, but also, more subtly, the forced feminization of Katniss to appeal to sponsors, and the Capitol's intense consumerism compared to the Districts' providing for them. Gender: The Hunger Games takes place in a patriarchal society. This is