The Brutal Face of the Violent Game of the Capitalist Competition: Squid Game
The Brutal Face of the Violent Game of the Capitalist Competition: Squid Game

Summary/Abstract: Globalization, which has gained momentum since the 1970s, is effective in almost every field, but its prominent dimension is economically based and it leads to increasing inequalities throughout the world. This inequality feeds an environment in which uncertainty, competition, risk and anxiety are intense in social life. The sense of weakness and defeat that people feel more and more, makes it easier for them to accept harsher and ruthless competition conditions and deepens the moral contradictions of modern man, who can risk everything for self-interest. Capitalist relations of production, where success is measured by money and where cooperation is replaced by competition, turns a large mass of people who fail in this game into a useless and unnecessary waste. In this study, the Squid Game series is analyzed through the concepts of capitalism, competition and game. The series, which describe people involved in a life-or-death game to solve their financial problems, shows the brutality of the competitive capitalist system in general. The study, in which the series is analyzed with descriptive analysis within the frame of the defined concepts, reveals the destruction of the exploitative system of today’s modern society on people.

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