The Hunger Games——The Interpretation of Power in Watt from the Perspective of Hunger Politics
Watt is a novel written by Irish writer Samuel Beckett,which describes the life situation of the e-ponymous protagonist Watt in a dystopian way.It is a novel revealing the theme of hidden violence and power oppression.In the story,the sovereign Knott takes living necessities such as housing and food as new power tools to make the marginal groups represented by Watt lose their subject consciousness and finally realize the deprivation of their rights.Based on the theory of hunger politics of Amartya Sen,a Nobel laureate in econom-ics,this paper reinterprets this work and finds that Beckett's writing about people using things as media to im-plement the oppression of human rights is trying to reproduce the national memory of Ireland's suffering,and revealing his criticism of hidden political violence.
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