2. The second is reading, rereading, and highlighting the data which consists of
words, phrase, clauses, and sentences taken from the primary source of the research.
3. The third is categorizing the relevant data based on categories.
4. The fourth is sorting the relevant data and giving the data a description.
1. The fifth is making the interrelation between the description of the data
and Marx’s theory of ideology; and the background of Collins’ The Hunger Games to get the finding based on the objectives: 1 to analyse
how Collins’ The Hunger Games criticizes repressive capitalist ideologies in the 21st century of the U.S., and 2 to identify the prominent capitalist
culture in the 21st century of the U.S. being criticized in Collins’ The Hunger Games.
5. The last step is making an interpretation of the findings based on the theory.
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CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
A. Criticism towards Repressive Capitalist Ideologies in Collins’ the Hunger
Games
According to Marxism Tyson, 2006: 56, an ideology is a belief system which is the outcome of cultural conditioning. Ideologies in general are divided
into two categories; the repressive ideologies, or those that distort the masses in understanding material realities of human condition, and nonrepressive ideologies.
Repressive ideologies refuse the notion that material conditions shape the way an
individual live his world. It often functions to legitimize the opression of a
particular group in society by posing as natural ways to see the world to distort the material reality. On the contrary, a nonrepressive ideology functions to create
awareness that individuals are shaped by their material conditions and reminds the existence of repressive ideologies that help individuals to submit to the ruling
power Tyson, 2006: 57. Capitalist ideologies and criticism towards them as repressive ideologies
are manifested in many literary works published in the United States of America. As one of those works, Collins’ The Hunger Games criticizes the cornerstones of
capitalism, which is individualism and self-reliance. This work reveals the negative elements of capitalism practiced by the main character as the antithesis
of the authoritarian government. Therefore, the researcher will attempt to reveal how the work criticizes these ideologies through the revelation of the degrading
