The document provides a Marxist analysis of schematic surveillance and hegemonic control in Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games" and "Catching Fire". It establishes the research problem of how Collins addresses issues of oppression through the dystopian government and examines how ideology is imposed through state and religious institutions. The objectives are to identify elements of exploitation and analyze how power is depicted and consent manufactured. Data analysis sections discuss various examples of schematic management, surveillance, and ideological control mechanisms at play in the novels.

1. SCHEMATIC SURVEILLANCE AND
HEGEMONIC CONTROL In
COLLINS “THE HUNGER GAMES”
and “CATCHING FIRE”: A MARXIST
STUDY
Mubbara Shahzadi

2. Registration # : S20A14G43025
Supervised by: Rana Abdul Monim Khan
Masters of Philosophy
In
English Literature
At
RIPHAH INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Faisalabad Campus, Faisalabad (Pakistan)

3. INTRODUCTION

4. “Ideology is a system of ideas that represents
the imaginary relationships of individuals to
their real conditions of existence”.
Lious Althusser’s and Gramsci’s
views about Hegemony and Ideology
ISA’s and RSA’s
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

5. Literature Review
Literature Review identifies the ‘gaps’
in existing literature, acknowledges the
other resources, explains the research
of works and theoretical frameworks
development of Postmodern Marxist
critique on “The Hunger Games” and
“Catching Fire”.

6. Research Questions
1. How does Collins address the issues of oppression,
repression, violence and hegemony of the tyrannical
government in selected texts?
2. How does The Hunger Games and Catching Fire present
the image of schematic management and Surveillance of
ruling elite?
3. How is the ideology of ruling elite internalized in the
mind of people through the use of ISAs and RSAs?

7. Research Objectives
1. To identify the elements of exploitation, violence, Survival,
poverty, Schematic management and Surveillance in
Suzanne Collins dystopian novels “The Hunger Games” and
“Catching Fire”.
2. To investigate the functioning of ideology through RSA’s
& ISA’s and Hegemonic control over Humans in the selected
texts.
3. To investigate Picture an image of a Capitol’s power that is
shown in the novels with the scientific movement as an
imaginary/scientific goal that depicts the main purpose of
tragic fear and death in both novels.

8. DATA ANALYSIS

9. Schematic Management
Title 03
 Sounds of gongs and cannons
 Appreance of Hovercrafts
 Man-made fire and fire balls
 Tracker jackers
 Trap from District Three
 Announcement of a big change during game
 Katniss with Mockingjay sign infront of cameras
 System of Days and Nights & Storm
 Basket of food on silver parachutte

10. Schematic Management
Location change by Gamemakers
Water finish in arena
Katniss hides her expressions infront of cameras
Mutations attack
Victory Visit
their act like star-crossed lovers
President Snow known about her secret part of life
Katniss rebellion / Nighlock Berries

11. Electric power in fence
Quarter Quell
 She twirls again in her dress and tranforms into Mockingjay
gets water into tree’s wood
Blood raining / Fog / TickTock
Jaberjays voices transforms into their loved ones
Transparent wall
Schematic Management

12. Surveillance
 their life in Districts
 Hob / Black market
 Peeta helps her to give bread
 She convince her mother and sister to with use of their
Apothecary medicine and with cheese and milk of goat.
 Madge gives her the Mockingjay pin
 Dandelions, Plants and roots are also the saviors of her
family
 Her acting to have a relation with Peeta
 Their skills

13. Surveillance
 They analyze the other tributes during training
Katniss targets pig during game
Sort of partner for Katniss to survive
Effie Trincket learns her how she got sponsors
Katniss wears the beatiful gown
she twirls in her gown / The girl on fire
Peeta shows her love for Katniss during interview
Game start and they are in cornucopia
She needs water to survive

14. Surveillanc
e

15. Surveillance

16.  Katniss sufferings in pain due to Rue’s death
 Claudius Templesmith announces a big change in Games
 She decides to act again as a star-crossed lover and starts to
search Peeta
 She sees Mockingjays and there appearance reveals her hope
to survive
 She takes care of Peeta due to his bad condition
Surveillance

17. Surveillance
 They get the bowl of soup as a sponsor due to their romance
 She tells Peeta the story of Prims goat
 She gets again the sleeing syrup as a sponsor from Haymitch
 Fight of Clove and Katniss
 Thresh kills Clove
 They gets the food due to their romance
 She thought about her future after Games
 They search food to eat and Peeta found Night-lock berries
 Gamre about to end / Flashback of dangers in their minds
 Cato appeats from jungle and runs away fast
Title
Text

18. Surveillance

19. Surveillance

20. Surveillance

21. Surveillance
 Katniss dance with Plutarch Heavensbee in Capitol at late
night party
 Uprise in District 8 and forces attacks
 Katniss thoughts to run away in forests with their families.
 Peacekeepers attacks on Gale and Katniss takes care him
 Haymitch refuses them to run away, if they run away then
this becomes the cause of more violence
Mockingjay stamp crackers
Twill and Bonnie tells her about District 13
Electric power in fense

22. Surveillance
 Bridal photoshoot of Katniss
 Her talk with Gale about District 13
 Quarter Quell announces / Victors of each district takes
part as tributes
 Katniss was so much worried and thought this is the
Capitol’s scheme to destroy or exploits her
 Haymitch, Effie, Peeta and Cinna gets some things of
golden colour like her Mockingjay pin
 They watch the clips of Haymitch’s fifteenth Quarter Quell
 Katniss and Peeta’s same jumpsuits for ceremony

23. Surveillance
They meets with other victors
 Haymitch suggests them to make allies
 Their discussion about private training room
 Game starts and they reach in arena
 Mags, Finnick, Katniss and Peeta are allies
 Fog appears by game-makers to exploit them
 Monkeys attacks on them in lake
 Beetee and Wiress tells them about blood
raining in the other section of arena / Wiress
mimbbles Tick Tock

24. Surveillance
 Johanna tells Katniss about Haymitch / He says her to ally
with Katniss
 Katniss understands the meaning of Tick Tock gives the
sign of clock, and the arena is like a clock and every section of
arena have different dangers
 Wiress membbles ‘midnight’ that clicks her mind when she
was with Plutarch Heavesbee, he saw the watch and says, his
meeting will starts at midnight
 They plans to go to the top of arena
 Vioces of Jabber Jays traps Katniss and Finnick as the
vioces of their loved ones

25. Surveillance
 Katniss decides to leave them and separate with Peeta
 Peeta says Beetee makes the plan to kill other tributes and
stops her for some time, she agrees
 Johanna betrays her, she feels weak and thoughts that,
Finnick will also make the plan to kill Peeta
 Peeta gives a pearl to Katniss as a gift
 Katniss attacks on forcefield and lost her senses
 Rebellion reveals, when she is back in her senses then she
reveals about Capitol 13 and know about the plan to exploit
the Capitol

26. ISA’s RSA’s and Hegemonic control over Human
 Capitol force districts for reaping
 Selection of tributes during reaping
 Katniss Everdeen volunteer as a tribute
 If anyone rebels against capitol, the forces kills him / her
 Difference b/w the luxuries, lifestyle, foods and products of
capitol and districts
 Districts have enough food to eat while Capitol is full of
wealth and foods
 Avox with their cut tongue
 Capitol use human beings as an entertainment
 All tributes faced dangerous attacks from Game-makers

27. ISA’s RSA’s and Hegemonic Control over Human
 Katniss takes action against capitol to use their weapon of
Tracker Jackers
 Capitol shouldn’t want to saw the Districts together
 When Katniss and Rue allies this becomes fearful for
capitol because this shows revolt
 Revenge of Katniss to whom, who kills Rue, this point of
revenge also shows rebellion
 According to capitol, if the districts unite, this makes the
big cause of danger for capitol
 Gale said to Katniss in the woods about tributes during
games, its not much different to kill the animals

28. ISA’s RSA’s and Hegemonic Control over Human
 Capitols decides a change in the game as the tributes of same
district win game now, this shows capitol tries to separate
districts
 Katniss thoughts that, the capitol does not destroy the lives of
tributes only but also exploit their families
 Katniss appearance is slap on capitol’s mouth, because she used
their schemes against them
 Katniss decides to help to Rue and Thresh’s families, this act
also shows revolt against capitol
 Victory Tour

29. ISA’s RSA’s and Hegemonic Control over Human
 Capitol blames her for Night-lock berries, because
Katniss challenge capitol
 Capitol force her to became a relationship with Peeta,
if she wants to saves her, Peeta and Gale’s families
 Control of capitol on Districts
 Oldman kill by peacekeepers that point also shown
violence on Districts
 Katniss’s hate and anger increase for Capitol

30. ISA’s RSA’s and Hegemonic Control over Human
 Threats of Snow also shown violence in their
lives
 Peacekeepers attacks on Gale
 She wants to run away in forests
 She decides to take stand against capitol
 Capitol forces burn ‘Hob’ and spread in
all districts and injures them
 Bad conditions in all districts

31. ISA’s RSA’s and Hegemonic Control over Human
 Katniss saw crackers in jungle that have
Mockingjay stamp on it
Bonnie and Twill tells her about rebellion in
District 8 and tells about hide appearance of
District 13
Announcement of Quarter Quell
 Katniss thoughts that Capitol wants to exploit
her

32. Thanks