SOTR SPOILERS AND THG SPOILERS???
I didn't consider myself a hunger games fan, nor one to write about character analysis but sotr is filled with so in your face character beats that keep rackling like a maracca and now it's the turn of ... Caesar Fickerman!
now that i'm reading and realizing suzane collins like to make her characters characters on their own right as well as symbols I think we have a reason to believe caesar was not a rebel, nor a secret snow agent...i think he is just a very good host and represents the Capitol population overall opinion.
Plutarch says himself that while some people humanize and emphatize with the Districts, there is a still a divide within. he explicidly states Capitol citizens would like to bring in their extended family out of Districts - how you want to spin and say what real world issues is commenting on is neither here or there , what i find most interesting is the important distinction of extended family. Capitol citizens humanize people related to them, of their taste, papable who fit within their view; anyone else is a wild, infested and inhumane animal less than a pet, a little more than a rabid dog.
I think - I don't know if it's supported by the text, it's a little bit of a stretch - that while some Capitol people have grown somewhat tired of the regime and still humanize a little the Districts, there has been a non small rise of nationalists who beheld the Districts as inhumane beasts better to keep with a collar on their neck and this divide is reflected by none other than Caesar Fickerman.
In the Hunger Games (I can't speak for tbosas) Katniss herself states Caesar doesn't go out of his way to attack or belittle the tributes - he is still a pompous Capitolite but it is implied he follows the plan Mentors have, plotting a story to aid tributes chances - this could be a reflection of the Capitol opinion, that they are doing a favor to the backwards tributes, they are magnificient souls extending a hand to the impure so it shows in the interviews.
Here? We have none that. Caesar lapses at the chance to mock the Careers, to call them brutes and foolish for using brawn instead of brain while he praises the Newcomers for not attempting to lick Capitol's boots; he is rewarding them with kind and more positive interviews for knowing their place despite having history Careers still perform better overall in the Games.
Another tidbit I like is how the Capitol still tweaks the interviews, a small comment that as much skill Caesar has they still find the need to add their own spin, commenting authorative regimes always twist and mix the opinion and foreshadowing a little (this is a bit of a strech) his execution. Caesar represents the Capitol's opinion and authorative regimes don't like when their population's opinion differs to their own, it's no wonder that was one of the first things Coin did.
