#nadirants (thg version)

[catastrxblues]

What do you think about Coryo and Sejanus view toward wealth and privilege?

Thank you :)

@curiousnonny

hi @curiousnonny! so so sorry i have only answered this now (and also haven't answered any of your other asks). i've never tried to actually write some sort of analysis on anything hunger games before, so i was very very nervous to start. also!! keep in mind that i haven't yet finished the ballad of songbirds and snakes so this is only what my current take from the book so far!

okay SO.

i think coriolanus saw them as a way of life and he was desperate to get them back. he was raised with old money. with a warm hearth, a great honor to his last name, and definitely not cabbage soup for breakfast. so when all was lost and his home no longer held everything that used to make it one, he was bitter.

every time he saw people who survived the war in a better place than the snows, he saw injustice. he saw wealth and privilege as something that was supposed to be his and how, had the war not happened, had his dad not invested all his money on district 13, he wouldn't have been in this situation (scraping for food, bad shirts, etc).

he resented the fact that he was poor because he, as a snow no less, shouldn't be.

now, sejanus was a WAY different side of the coin.

he, on the other hand, resented the fact that he was rich because he, as a district boy no more, shouldn't be.

i think he saw his wealth and privilege as an undeserved thing and he always hated thinking about them (which is again, another thing that differentiates these two, because coriolanus was always always thinking about them despite the fact that he barely had any).

because thinking about it reminded him of how he left his old home, where he belonged, and how everyone in there probably hated him now because his dad had one good hell of an upper hand (a feeling he thought validated because he too hated himself for it, i think).

he hated how privileged and comfortable he was because it reminded him of his own people back in district 2 who weren't so lucky (and whereas every time coriolanus thought about wealth and privilege, it reminded him of his own friends who were way luckier than him). which also reminded him that all these warmth and good food he was getting was only because he was on the wrong side of history, on the side of their oppressive government who was the reason his people back at 2 was miserable and poor and starving in the first place.

i think, while they can be no more different to one another (again, especially in terms of this subject), they both have a very passionate view of wealth and privilege that are also both surrounded with resentment and the feeling of unfairness of it all.

coriolanus would like to take what sejanus had and make it his if he could because he never did think ma's boy deserved it, while i think sejanus would be more than willing to give it to him as long as he’d no longer have to deal with what he never did think he deserved, if that makes sense.

right, that’s all i have. please share all of your thoughts too if you'd like. thank you for this!