Scapegoat Society

In today's society we always try to put the blame on another for our own short comings or try to deter our attention from our own miserable lives to that of something else as to forget. According to Dictionary.com a scapegoat is "a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place." Right now we are going to focus on the second half of this definition, "...to suffer in their place." This has been happening all through out history. Remember all those human or animal sacrifices you heard about in Mayan culture, or gladiators fighting to the death, these are all examples of a scapegoat. Nowadays we will use the movie The Hunger Games. It is a prime example. Two teenagers from each district is selected to participate in the games as a way to keep the districts together under Panam. Essentially, each teenager is a scapegoat for each district, they are suffering so that their peers do not have to. This is both in the physical and emotional sense. They serve as a distraction to the district. The games is a form of entertainment to take them away from their suffering in the higher districts, even just for a little bit. The government uses these individuals as a way to say that their sacrifice is minor in comparison into what could be. They are a scapegoat.