Capitalism is a socioeconomic system that currently operates in every country on the planet. It is visualized as a part of human existence, as an everlasting and unchanging element. Consequently, capitalism, authority and violence are prominently featured in American fiction. Suzannae Collins, a well-known American novelist, deeply discusses the class struggle and exploitation conducted by the totalitarian regime against the people in depth in her The Hunger Games Trilogy. She also reveals the extent to which the state controls everyone’s lives. The main characters of her novel are forced to run for their lives from a totalitarian society and the ordinary people in the society are seen as mere puppets in the hands of authority .She mainly deals with how the government establishes power and how it uses violence against its own citizens. She also tries to show how the concept of power affects the life, power, politics and economy of the people of the society. From the view point of Collins, power is both the solid rock and an elixir of life on which the very existence of the authoritarian state depends. The theme explored by Collins is ‘divide and rule’ which demonstrates how the government prevents people from banding together against the authoritarian authority. She also shows how the media, sports, and economic variables are efficiently employed to ensure the government’s control over the ordinary man’s mind, body, and soul.

Capitalism, Starvation, Loss of humanity, Power of Media, Exploitation, Divison, Ruling.