The Hunger Games Moral Issues
Write a paper . Select some of the moral issues presented in The Hunger Games saga . You may use any of the installments in the trilogy of novels by Suzanne Collins or the movies based on them. Begin your paper with a statement about which book(s)/film(s) you are working with . Make direct references to situations or dialogue within these stories. a
Analyze the moral issues you have chosen, using your own logic and feelings along with references to philosophers covered in the class . Ask what kind of moral theory best helps you answer the moral dilemmas in this story? Virtue theory? Kant’s categorical imperative? Utilitarianism? Something else, or some combination?
Here are some examples of moral issues that are obvious in these stories, though you certainly do not need to limit yourself to the examples listed here:
Killing: When is it justified, if ever?
Civil disobedience
Altruism and self-sacrifice. Why do people do good? Why do they sacrifice themselves for others or for a greater purpose than themselves?
How should children be treated, including using them as means to an end?
