The tale of genji provides a glimpse of life in the heian court because

The Tale of Genji provides a glimpse of life because it tells about the place of the women in the society, to be more specific, in politics during the VIII century until the X century in Japan. In this periods, women were excluded from politics by men and they only let women observe but not to propose or investigate in this subject.

However, women influenced in the decisions made by the men because they were their wifes, lovers and partners when men weren´t at Heian court. This tale shows a vision of how relegated from several matters in the society, like politcs in this case, was the woman and nowadays women are still fighting for their place when it comes to make hard decisions in any aspect of life, from matters at home until matters that affect a whole country.

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.