Sejanus plinth: Victim, martyr or simply: reckless? (an analysis)

ah sanus plinth what can I say about this man so to start off with I have a lot of love for sanus plinth right off the bat I think sanus besides the children put into the arena is one of the most unfortunate characters of the ballot of song birds and snakes he's a district kid who came out of District 2 who is used to living a certain way of life and is thrown into wealth and yet he has a serious case of Survivor guil he is in contrast and foil to snow in every single shape and form he has enough empathy and enough emotional drive to take some form of action even though that action was foolish and not well thought out and that is exactly the problem empathy and emotional Drive in such a system of panm without any skill tact or power to back you up is a death warrant in this video I'm going to be analyzing sanus plinth because I feel like he really deserved a bigger shout out than he got in the film but before I get into it I just want to say thank you to everybody else who watched my last video essay I'm super surprised by the turnout and and I was absolutely shocked so thank you to everyone who listened to that when I first read the book sanus plinth had true golden retriever energy I mean he's super kind welcoming and open but as much as I love him I couldn't help but get up set at his actions it seems that sanus never really understood SL studied the place around him and unfortunately was just such wasted potential to me and even more that the movie cut out his most significant scenes well there are many different aspects that eventually to his downfall but let's analyze it piece by piece let's talk about him being a foil to snow because this is very important the reality is is that sanus pin is a foil to snow or should I say a contrast to snow in every single shape and form he was born District whereas cor elanus was born into the capital Snow's family lost their Fortune during the war by investing in District 13 whereas s janus's family comes into wealth by investing in ammunitions during the same War he has a close relationship with his mother or ma as known in the book who is a very strong figure in his life Snow's mother died in childbirth because he has a close relationship to his mother you can see that drive and emotional understanding is so prevalent in him versus in corilanus he had a lot of empathy and humanity and even during the times in the books when I was reading it because you're in corus's mind a lot of the times you actually become numb and somewhat forget how devastating the acts during The Hunger Games and preluding The Hunger Games are Sis's voice would be that small voice of reason that would remind you just how serious this is however as much as sanus has some amazing characteristics his biggest flaw was not being able to control his emotions now the reason I wanted to analyze and contrast him to snow is because of a theory that I think might be a reach but beare with me so I constantly used to wonder about s janus's parents' roles in his life when it comes to the capital especially his father strabo plint how is he just simply comfortable SL okay with living in a new way of life in the capital and not secretly plotting to end this regime of The Hunger Games even though they are themselves District straa plinth was very interesting to me because I I really feel that he might have let down sanus by expecting his own child who identifies with being District to be able to adapt to a new way of life even though that's not where they were originally from and still facing discrimination for it amongst Capital people it's so strange to me that someone's father would know his roots and his son's roots and still expect his son to act like a Capital kid and again I understand that perhaps trybo was just trying to make his way through the capital and provide for his family but that is such an unrealistic expectation I really felt that strabo could have concocted a plan or at least let on his son know that if you're dising gruntled with what's happening in the capital instead of having emotional outbursts why don't we plan why don't we look at ways to make connections why do we look at ways to secretly pull strings behind the scenes to be able to make sure that we have power in this capital and then we can do everything we possibly can for the districts and it also kind of explains s janus's outbursts a lot of the time because his own father doesn't really listen to him in chapter 25 of the books snow says something that I thought was particularly interesting so snow and sanus have an argument about sanus wanting to help out Billy taupe and the rebels when they're in district 12 and they're peacekeepers now naturally snow hates Billy taupe because of his relationship with Lucy gray but also because he deems them as Rebels so Janis tells snow that he would not make any serious Promises to the rebels but he'll be willing to help them out as much as he possibly can corilanus as they're having an argument he sort of notices that he's sort of taken the fatherly role for sanus and I think that is so interesting a lot of the times cor elanus and S janus's interaction seems like that of a father and child so Janus being the child who takes a reckless action and Cory elanus having to get him out of that Reckless action and teach him some way to be able to think smarter do things smarter act smarter and even Cor in himself notices this in his own brain and this just ties into what I was saying about his father's role earlier I think sanus had also a very interesting attachment to snow not only because of the fact that snow is his only friend in the capital but also that there's this sort of weird fatherly relationship or at least a sort of mentor Le relationship between him and snow now I may be reaching here but I think his attachment to snow is a little bit more than normal and when snow eventually tells him that he sees him like a brother it just open the flood works of course I'm pretty sure he felt kindered to snow specifically after that statement but it seemed a lot of the times that sanus was just constant looking for another father figure in his life because his own father figure did not seem to understand him also what kind of supports this theory is that a lot of the times when cor elanus and sanus are having an argument with one another sanus regresses like a child and not only in arguments but a lot of his actions sanus is found with Billy taupe same thing when they have an argument when they're peacekeepers he sort of regresses he tries to augue his point but he stammers and then he regresses back into himself and then he sort of does this self-pity wallowing thing I put everyone in danger and you're right and I'm thinking to myself my guy please have some backbone here but a lot of the times it did feel like he had this childlike Behavior around snow and I don't necessarily know what to call that but in a weird way I did think that they have some sort of mentor leave or at least older brother and younger brother relationship unfortunately for sanus snow is not the kind of person to do things for another human being without his own personal self- and if they get in his way well snow is going to Simply detach from that person and that is eventually what happened but I do feel like if perhaps sanus had been more attached to somebody could have some more empathy this could have worked out well he could have had somebody to Mentor him and help him direct his decisions in the capital and he would have been more successful it's just unfortunately his need for father father figure who understood him or at least could guide him through his daily life in the capital was snow and as we know snow is not a great fatherly figure for anything again I don't want to shame sanus for having feelings because I mean for men in society a lot of the times they are told not to feel or not to be emotional or not to express any sort of emotion so that's not what I'm trying to say here what I'm trying to say here is that whether you're a man or woman having emotional outbursts in such a system and panm does not help anybody in panm an emotional outburst and a lack of power and tact are a dangerous combination anyways let's go into another point I have self-destructive Behavior so I do think that sedan's behavior a lot of the times sometimes could be borderline self-destructive and what I mean by that is also his behavior was detrimental to himself while he was trying to help others and the thing is again let's remember that we're seeing things from Cory linus' point of view so if we saw things from his his head we could also understand where he's coming from on an even deeper level but I also bring up the point of self-destructive behavior is because something specific happens in the books while snow was lurking through Saj janus's belongings in chapter 25 after suspecting him after they had that little altercation between themselves and sanus was trying to help out Bly hope snow went through his belongings his little momentos box he sees a few things some photographs some sleeping capsules and bottles of morphling now initially the first time when I read this book I didn't really think anything of it because earlier in the books uh after the bombings everyone had suffered injuries and sanus was also medicated and they gave him morphling for his emotional outbursts as well also I think it's interesting that they call it emotional outbursts as if people have not went through literal trauma in panm but I digress and so he receives these bottles of morphling to be able to calm him down now if you don't know morphling is our real life version of morphine and it's of course something that's extremely ad Ive but in the world of panm it makes you numb to either Joy or pain and it's used a lot of the times in hospitalized situations or as an instrument by the capital against someone that they're holding hostage and it's also the drug that Dean High bottom is addicted to and it makes him act funny in all sorts of ways so it becomes a little bit more concerning when you hear through Snow's point of view describing the bottle of morphling how the bottle looks like that of Dean Heim bottoms and it has little droplets just like how Dean High bottom would put little droplets of morphling on his tongue and the fact that sanus has that in his own box is a little bit concerning because again we do not know if he has any inflicted wounds that he's trying to medicate but as far as we know there are none left over for him I was also going to excuse it because he also wanted to be a medic and perhaps wanted an understanding of certain medications but that didn't really make sense why would a hospital give a 17-year-old boy bottles of morphling something that someone can easily become addicted to also the fact that he has sleeping capsules could tell you that he's having trouble sleeping and his sort of way of medicating himself or putting himself through is morphling now again we don't have enough information to go off of this but if it is true that he is taking morphling and this is just a secret of behavior I think it's so interesting that he's becoming a slow parallel to Dean Heim bottom someone who was also friends with the snow and God fued over just like Dean High bottom was I really wish we could have gotten a bigger understanding of what he was doing with it but if he TR is using morling that could tell you the extent of his self-destructive behavior and how his soul is trying to cope in the capital the truth is is that sanus is a teenager or at least in his early 20s as of the time of this book however I do think we need to hold him accountable and some shape or form because there are some actions that he took that I believe were very unnecessary now in the books there are more Mentor meetings between Dr Gaul and the rest of the students a lot of the times in the mentor meetings he would voice his disdain for The Hunger Games and the ethics and morals of it all and how wrong it is in which he is truly correct The Hunger Games is one of the worst ideas I think I've ever heard of in a long time simply because of how inhumane it is and in a lot of them sanus would show a lot of emotional reactions but then he put a Target upon his head when he decided to have an emotional reaction towards Dr G I think in one of the scenes he decided to throw a chair and that is unfortunate and again I understand such a reaction especially when everything's happening around you and you feel out of control you try and fight for any single piece of control that you have have but my problem started coming in with sanus when after each single time he would show a display of rebellion or show a display of some sort against the capital status quo he would do it at the wrong time and in the wrong way when he was in the mentor meeting my first thought to myself was what would you gain from shouting at Dr Gul you are now in a position of wealth would it not be smarter to keep your emotions and go back home and tell your father who's in the capital and has enough money to fund Dr G's project projects and tell him about what Dr G is planning to do had it not become clear at this point that Dr Gaul does not listen to emotion but she listens to power she listens to fear she listens to the carnal things that drive human beings she doesn't care about your emotions and to the average person I would like to hope that it's reasonable enough to say that you would understand that pretty quickly but sanus does not and for someone who has so much emotional intelligence compared to the rest of his students in the capital I was fair surprised by this and even this is something that corilanus was able to catch on quickly with the rest of the students now of course corilanus was not as extremely opposed to the games as sanus was but even he realized to fear Dr Gaul or at least in public now we can argue for sanus that because he is District his way of life has been completely different and the way he's grown up is completely different and perhaps their way of doing things in District 2 would be more to react whereas the capital you're trained to be more subtle about things so again I can excuse someone of his reactions but my biggest disappointment with sanus was when he snuck into the arena I truly thought that was a foolish move and well again while I understand the emotional sentiment I also think that that sanus would not have been able to take such an action in the first place or even think about such an action if he did not have the privilege to do so a lot of the times his family and especially his father buys him out of a lot of his problems and I think at some point he sort of forgets how much privilege he has in being able to have any sort of emotional reaction or make such Reckless decisions and that's something that goes against him in my books as much as I love him and this goes again into my second Point empathy does not negate recklessness a lot of sas's behavior while in the right place and with the right emotion were reckless in the system of panm now I don't know if this is because we're seeing things from Snow's point of view so I'm not going to fully judge sanus on this or at least judge him so harshly but sometimes when sanus would have a bit of a reckoning or have such an emotional reaction and in certain moments he sometimes made the whole entire ordeal about himself rather than the actual action that was taking place for example with Marcus in the arena while I understand that you would want to be able to say goodbye to somebody who is your classmate it's mentioned in the books that Marcus and sanus were not really close as classmates of course this do not negate the horrific event that's taken place but it's not like Marcus was his best friend therefore he has to be able to perform the ritual rights that belongs to District 2 I don't think he does this on purpose but sometimes he can really sort of get in his own way in trying to prove his own Point as much as you want to perform the ritual rights of District 2 that doesn't really help any of the tributes in the situation if you're so concerned about them sneaking to the arena doesn't do anything sometimes sanus was just not necessarily self-centered but sometimes he could be so oblivious to things he had such tunnel vision in the way that he felt and he did not have the tact to be able to study his surroundings and know when it was appropriate or not appropriate to take certain actions it's perfectly okay to have emotion and to show emotion but it's another thing to take such wless actions that you negate what you're trying to prove in the first place another person I wanted to pull up as a contrast is PETA now in comparison Peta and sanus are two completely different people and my love for PETA will never die but the reality is is that I feel like Peta is a good representation of what I mean he is in tune with his emotions and he's more quote quote sensitive than the average person or the average man that you would see in the capital which makes him so lovable but at the same timea was smart enough to be able to play the game he knew the importance of appearances in the capital he knew the importance of being able to control emotions he knew the importance of having to play the right way to be able to get what is needed in the capital and I'm surprised that sanus plinth does not display this quality but I don't know y'all am I being a little too harsh on my man Janus let me know down in the comments below also I asked in my community tab how you guys felt about sanus and what your hot takes were and personally I agree with all of them I think we get the general test that sanus is a really kind person and again I hope this video did not take away from his good qualities it's just he was really misguided and also took some not so great positions but anyways thank you guys so much for watching this video essay I really appreciate it let me know if I should talk about Lucy gray because I have some very interesting opinions about her and the systematic abuse of her boyfriends and also a general theme of wom in panm having to sort of give away their bodies or being uncompromising positions despite being so young it was one of my thoughts but let me know down in the comments below if you guys would like to see that also some of you asked about my outro song and I'm making a new song so so I'll give you guys a little bit of a teaser in my outro tell me if I should drop it or not okay [Music] bye how you Bab show are super walk that's how you going baby walk show who you are super walk that's how you going baby walk show them who you are super know walk that's how you going for fish baby walk Who You Are

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Length: 17min 31sec (1051 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 09 2023