Instead, it shows the shift in his mentality: from snobby Capitol elite to cold-blooded and power-hungry autocrat.
The novel does not show Coriolanus’ rise to power. Collins introduces several philosophers in the epigraph including Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau, to demonstrate that Coriolanus is going to undertake a serious exploration of human nature. This prequel attempts to understand why human nature has come to this. If the Hunger Games trilogy was an exploration of human nature at its worst, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes digs a little deeper. And yet, readers are compelled to turn the page. Thus, the protagonist of the novel continues to be the villain of the story. This is reinforced by the conclusion of the novel – where he guns down the love of his life simply because he thinks that love makes him weak and vulnerable. But at every step of the way, the reader is reminded that he is simply doing the right thing for himself. Throughout the novel, it almost seems as if Coriolanus is trying to do the right thing whenever he is at a crossroads. His only hope is doing well in the final project for the Academy: the Mentorship program for the tenth Hunger Games. The main problem he has right now is that he does not have enough money to fund his university education. He is instead an arrogant, overconfident, and entitled 18-year-old boy griping about his poverty while living in one of the most imperial mansions in the Capitol. This does not mean that she makes Coriolanus a sympathetic character. However, Collins has turned the villainous antagonist into the protagonist of her prequel. President Coriolanus Snow, a ruthless dictator, and murderer, is hated by the Hunger Games fandom. The novel is a brave attempt simply because it tells the story of the antagonist of the Hunger Games.
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