Coriolanus was EVERYTHING for Sejanus. He meant the world to him and Coriolanus didn't even really like him for 80% of the time
More you might like
“Well, as they said, it's not over until the mockingjay sings.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
I think the most radical thing the hunger games does is tell young people that the most revolutionary thing you can do is have unconditional love for humanity. Katniss throughout the entire series is guided by a deep sense of compassion for the people around her. It is what causes her to volunteer, to bury rue, to mercy kill cato, its why she tries to save peeta, why finnick telling her to remember who the real enemy is works, and even though her compassion for the larger world falters when peeta is kidnapped, it comes back when she visits hospitals and asks for mercy for other victors and ultimately, it is love and belief in a better humanity that makes her kill coin. Through it all, she maintains an unfaltering belief in the fundemental goodness of humanity, which is diametrically opposed to dr gaul's and snow's worldview. Peeta is even more unwaveringly compassionate
So the series tells young people that the most revolutionary thing you can be is compassionate. Let compassion drive your politics. Let yourself believe in the fundemental goodness of people. And i think that's deeply important in a world that touts the superiority of pure reason or logic, to allow yourself to be guided by something as emotional as compassion. Katniss everdeen tells us that your politics should be rooted in compassion in a world that thinks detatchment or cynicism is intelligence and i think thats v cool
i cannot stop thinking about the reenactment of trauma and "it's the things we love most that destroy us" and how lucy started to see snow as a threat to her safety and how snow had peeta hijacked to see katniss as a threat to his safety and how snow betrayed and killed the person closest to him and how snow is trying to get katniss to betray and kill the person closest to her
yellenabelova