Suzanne Collins is back to her old tricks.
, the origin story of the trilogy’s villain, Coriolanus Snow, is no exception. Mostly set in the Capitol,serves up many new names from the elite of Panem, and offers some insight into Collins’ inspirations.
come from classical Greek and Roman culture, and the last names have a British flavor. Among the novel’s minor characters are classmates of Coriolanus’ named. It’s well-known that the ancient Roman games in which condemned criminals were pitted against wild animals in the Colosseum to entertain the public inspired the Hunger Games. Butoffers new insight into how the Capitol’s leading families viewed the rest of Panem, especially anyone “district,” like Coriolanus’ rich but lowborn friend, Sejanus. Coriolanus believes, with most of the Capitol’s rulers, that he is inherently better than Sejanus because of his noble blood, a conviction cherished by the British aristocracy. Below, we close-read the names of the new novel’s main characters.and whose last name is the word for a birdhouse designed for doves—is the mentor of the tribute Reaper, and she is accused by her fellow mentors of heartlessness in withholding food and water from him until he racks up some kills., a ferociously ambitious operator who became the closest adviser of the emperor Tiberius and poisoned Tiberius’ son, Drusus Caesar, in a bid to become emperor himself. A plinth is a base for a statue, but instead of supporting Coriolanus, Sejanus’ conscience and impractical idealism continually get his friend into trouble.Dean of the Academy and ill-disposed to Coriolanus on account of an old grudge held against his father, Casca shares a name with one of Julius Caesar’s assassins, but given his addiction to the Panem painkiller “morphling,” his last name may be more pertinent: It’s a term used in the recovery movement to describe someone who resolves to become sober before losing such mainstays as job, marriage, and position.
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