I read the trilogy and it’s definitely a commentary on present and future totalitarian government. A modern day Atlas Shrugged perhaps.
Twilight meets a Brave New World.
There’s a classic example here about messages really being in the mind of the audience. Collins has said any political references are against Bush (the first one was written before Obama was even elected). But a conservative reader will see it the other way. It’s a tale against oppressive government, the question boils down to what the reader considers oppressive.
I thought “Atlas Shruged vs. Lord of the Flies.”
Yeah...got to dumb down the concepts of Atlas Shrugged to an 8th grade reading level...to get anybody under 30 to read it...and understand it...
BTW...I read the trilogy and absolutely HATED the way the storyline ended in book three...
It was a great read up until that point...