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Benjamin J. Geistfeld on his thesis entitled “Playing Games: Governmental In fluence and Personal Assertion in Suzanne Collins‟ The Hunger Games Series” discusses about the influence of the two government in The Hunger Games Series toward the protagonist Katniss Everdeen. Each of the government has their own method to support their own agendas. According to Giestfeld, The oppressive governments in these young adult novels create the social conditions from which the protagonists must remove themselves, and the protagonists successfully remove themselves from those social conditions by acting on their own interests rather than the government‟s interests 2013: 1. Such condition is what he found on Suzanne Collins‟ The Hunger Games Series. Catching Fire is one of The Hunger Games series indirectly shows how people who have less power are being treated unequally and controlled by those who have more power. It is also stated that Citizens in the classes who hold power the upper classes often justify their exploitation by denying the human status of the citizens they are exploiting the lower classes. Because citizens of the lower classes no longer hold human status, they often have fewer rights than citizens in the upper classes Giestfeld, 2013: 15. Meanwhile a thesis done by Hardian Putra Pratama on “Class Struggle as the Impact of Oppression Seen in Clifford Odets‟ Waiting for Lefty: A Marxist Study” sees the class struggle through Waiting for Lefty. Pratama on his thesis states that, all people, no matter what social class and life background they have, deserve welfare and through Waiting for Lefty the writer tries to describe that situation 2009: 3. In order to see the class struggle in the novel, the writer of this thesis analyzes the characters in the novel and then classifies into the two main classes namely proletariat and the capitalist. After that the writer analyzes the oppression done by the capitalist towards the proletarian. On his thesis, the writer applies theory on character and characterization, theory of Marxism that includes theory of social class, theory of oppression, theory of alienation, theory of class consciousness and theory of class struggle to analyze the problems mentioned above. Through the analysis, the writer finds that there are two main classes in capitalist society; they are capitalist and the proletariat. The former is the capitalist while the latter is the proletarian. The writer discovers that the capitalist oppresses the proletarian to get benefit for their own sake. The class struggle then is done when the proletarian start to realize that they are being used by the capitalist. However, before the class struggle, the proletarian encounter some phases. The first phase is the alienation as the result of oppression, after that class consciousness when they realize that they as one united class are being tortured by another class. The last phase is the class struggle when the proletarian as an oppressed class feel that they are facing the same enemy and they think they have to struggle against the oppressor together. In the end the idea of Marxism can be seen through the struggle of the proletarian against the capitalist who bluntly oppress them Pratama, 2009: 70-73. Yohanes Tuaderu on his thesis entitled “Class Struggle in Capitalist Society as Depicted in George Bernard Shaw‟s Pygmalion” states that class