It’s been mentioned that prolonged contact kills, but short bursts stun and injure. Juliette has this tremendous power at her fingertips, but she shows no interest in harnessing it. In Hunger Games, Peeta’s infatuation and his own principles become the crux of his and Katniss’s confusing love story. Here, Juliette and Adam’s love comes across insta-love and what’s told to the audience instead of shown. Like Peeta from the Hunger Games books, he’s inexplicably been in love with Juliette since they were kids, in what is supposed to be a light contrast to Warner. He wants to possess her completely, even sexually forcing himself on her in climatic moments.Īdam in my opinion is no better. Warner keeps Juliette as a pet almost, caged in a gorgeous castle until he wants her to perform a trick. He physically and mentally controls Juliette from what she wears - he wants her to wear flowing dresses to emphasize her womanly charms - to when and what she eats and, finally, her powers. Warner is clearly supposed to be the most disturbing of the two. The entire book is focused on romance rather than on Juliette’s deep self-loathing of her powerful (and frightening) abilities and eventual acceptance. Instead, Juliette’s trapped in a “love triangle” between Adam, her classmate turned government solider and Warner, a 19-year-old Reestablishment leader that wants to use her powers for evil. Shatter Me Book Trailer from Harper Teen. It seems that in addition the environment’s inability to grow edible plants and non-mutant animals, this dystopia only has one woman because Juliette never seems to have any connections with female characters. It also becomes painfully obvious that Juliette is the sort of person that defines herself by her relationships, particularly with men. “I catch the rose petals as they fall from my cheeks, as they float around the frame of my body, as they cover me in something that feels like the absence of courage.” (Because of course the Ophelia has to be beautiful despite any trauma that’s happened to her.) The following quote is when someone tells her she’s beautiful. Over-exaggeration in metaphors mirror her mental state. The strike-through words represent things she wishes she could say or her true thoughts. The novel is presented as the main character’s journal, complete with vivid descriptions, metaphors and using the strike-through tool. She’s also never been physically touched - unless you count the fatal accident - in her life.
Juliette is covered in dirt, pale, and hasn’t spoken to anyone physically in years. Ophelia is the idealized, wide-eyed maiden that spouts out flower poetry.
Both desire love from their families or romantic partners. Both are abandoned by their parents to serve their own ambitions to the government - Polonius uses Ophelia to prove Hamlet’s insanity while Juliette’s parents physically send her to prison at the government’s wish. Juliette does serve as a sort mirror to Hamlet’s Ophelia. (We’ll get to that later.) To me, this book was Shakespearian rather than Panem, more specifically Hamlet. Parallels to the Hunger Games end with the love interest who adored her for years at school but never said a word to her until now. I’m not a X-Men fan, but I do see the similarities. The Reestablishment, a group in charge of whatever remains of the world, finally hauls her out of her cell with one goal: to use her abilities as a torture weapon. Her touch is literally lethal, it’s even mentioned that she killed little boy accidentally years ago. Marketed as a cross between The Hunger Games and X-Men, the novel follows Juliette Ferras who has been locked away in solitary confinement at a mental asylum for 264 days. “Shatter Me” cover art, with the promotional teasing lines.
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