You have all the right to dislike a character, but it’s more honorable if you do it by just assuming that you don’t like it because it doesn’t fit into your own preferences, than try using a political argument to justify your hate, when you clearly don’t understand a thing about the system the character is included.
When we are bringing Panem’s political system into discussing as a tool to make a character value critical analysis, it is importantes to have the difference between the Capitol and the District very clear in our minds, knowing that even though they were ruled in different ways, they lived under the same oppressive ideology. Capitol citizens weren’t being starved and whipped, or thrown into arenas once a year, but the power they had over their own lives and freedom was just as limited as any other person in Panem. When Plutarch says that Lou Lou could have been a Capitol children, just as much as a District one, he makes it very clear that, when it comes to non-supportive citizen, their pedigree doesn’t matter anymore. Capitol or District, they were seeing as the same.
With that said, it is implied that, in a system where your only source of information comes from the government who wants to make you believe into a certain propaganda and that punishes you with torture, brain damage or death if you show any signs of disagreement, you don’t have many ways to safely educate yourself against the cultural ideas forced into you since birth. A rebel to flourish randomly inside of the city was a one in a million situation (you either had enough power and money to afford the danger of educating yourself against the system -with books that were mostly lost during the dark days in most families, thus wasn’t assessable for the majority of the population- or you got a sparkle of self conscience, that is absurdly rare and most likely caused by a very specific life experience)…You can’t say that a person is bad or good, based on her lack of reaction in a world that forces her to not react. Not everyone is a hero. Not everyone can afford the selflessness of putting the greater good in front of self protection…and it doesnt make them less human
The Capitol is a complex institution, because as much as they had those who supported Snow to the depths of his existence, and not just approved but financed things like the sexual traffic between victors, the majority of the people were just following the flock and acting as they were raised to…it doesn’t mean that what they were doing was right, but since they were not living under a world where they could do any different without deadly consequences, it is a unavoidable evil and not a consensual choice
You can say you don’t like Effie because she wasn’t empathic with the tributes when she called them savages for eating with their hands right after the reaping. What you can’t say is that she was a bad person in the core because of it, without taking into consideration the system and all the exterior factors that contributed for her to act the way she does,
