It is the survival of humanity and the survival of the humanity in humans. Often, when survivability kicks in, humanity is thrown out and there is rapid degradation in our actions from civilized to savages. Due to this, Katniss struggles with true love and on-screen love, struggles to come to terms to people whom she grows to know and associate with who sacrifice themselves for the ultimate usage of herself as the Mockingjay. Also it shows the attempt to create a utopia ends up being a dystopia. It is not that obvious as to how the people of the Capitol got to their places and the society depicted in the books are originally formed, but from the last book, Katniss speculates if there were a group of "victors" long ago that sat at a round table to discuss the fate of the "evil" beings, the people of the districts at that time, which culminated in the creation of the Hunger Games. This could also be a central theme as to the series from the fact that the rebellion was lead by District 13's head, whose district was the one who "ceased to exist"when the districts were losing, and then suddenly at the top leading, but grabbing the power after the fighting, after the war efforts from all OTHER districts had been successful. In the climb for Utopia, there are people with the same goal for different motives, and this is what Katniss finally realizes at the very end of the series. This, I think would be the main, core, central theme of the book, that the attempt at Utopia always falls to dystopia.
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