Divergent: A Utopian Society

“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.” Divergent is a movie that is based on a utopian world that controls the public through a test. The world of Divergent is consisted of five factions, Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity, Erudite, and Candor. The test places the citizens in one of these five factions. If the government finds a glitch in the test results, or if they find the results inconclusive, those citizens are then labeled Divergent and they are cast in the elimination list. Divergent is a problematic utopian society that dehumanized it’s people, placed conformity in its people’s thoughts, and perfected an illusion of a perfect society.
In the movie Divergent, the citizens …show more content…
Each faction is supposed to dress a certain way, in a certain color. They are expected to act a certain way and abide the rules a certain way, and that is the manipulation of the government. If you dress differently, that’s a big red flag to the government. Some factions are looked down upon as unworthy, such as Abnegation and Amity. During the movie, Erudite was having conflicts with Abnegation because they believed that Abnegation is not fit to be the center of the government. They believed Erudite should be the central government and have control of the whole city. This led to Erudite striking again, and boy did they strike harder than ever before. Jenine and her crew inject a serum into the Dauntless fighters, hypnotizing them to keep order and power in her hands. So far, everything that’s happened is the basis of an illusion, an illusion of a perfect utopian society. A utopia that is bound to …show more content…
The faction test enables the authorities to control the population and place the citizens where they belong. The factions are a symbolic enigma that show how the government rules itself as a utopian society. Without the factions, and the faction test, the government is left vulnerable. All the people who live in the utopia are like robots, who are meant to follow every rule in the rule book and be expected to follow every command. That is, for the Divergent, who will not stay in the criteria. They do not follow the rulebook, in fact, they break it. Utopia’s generally start as a sugar-coated dictatorship, which is then unveiled by the minority, thus calling for the collapse of the government and its control over the