Dystopian societies are built off the idea that everyone receives the same type of opportunities by providing order to the people by setting up divisions of society. Both the book, Divergent and 1984 have many characteristics of a true dystopian society. The societies are both broken and are set up in the same type of environments and the leaders remain power hungry. Both the Party and Candor seek out to control over thought and the characteristics that make each person special. Both societies have their different ways of limiting their people whether it be through factions or Ministries, but both achieve the common of gaining power by limiting the freedom and thought of the people.
A similarity between Divergent and 1984 is this idea of dividing the society into divisions. These divisions each have specific jobs and are designated to wear certain clothing or colors. In Divergent, the society is broken up into factions. The first faction is Abnegation and they are …show more content…
The society in Divergent can be easily persuaded as well as rebels can get people to follow them and fight against the leaders of the city. Four and Tris are successful and defeat Jeanine, even though the odds were against them, but once the truth was uncovered, the people realized what was really going on in the world that they live in. On the other hand, in 1984, the parols and the Party members seem to be more brainwashed by what the Party is putting out in the society. They worship Big Brother and find no reason to rebel and if someone were to speak out against the Party, they would be vaporized and that would be the end of that. The world that the parols live in in 1984, there is no room for thought or any type of real personality or creativity, where at least in Divergent, the people of Chicago are still allowed to think the way they want and express themselves the way that they want to as
A similarity between Divergent and 1984 is this idea of dividing the society into divisions. These divisions each have specific jobs and are designated to wear certain clothing or colors. In Divergent, the society is broken up into factions. The first faction is Abnegation and they are …show more content…
The society in Divergent can be easily persuaded as well as rebels can get people to follow them and fight against the leaders of the city. Four and Tris are successful and defeat Jeanine, even though the odds were against them, but once the truth was uncovered, the people realized what was really going on in the world that they live in. On the other hand, in 1984, the parols and the Party members seem to be more brainwashed by what the Party is putting out in the society. They worship Big Brother and find no reason to rebel and if someone were to speak out against the Party, they would be vaporized and that would be the end of that. The world that the parols live in in 1984, there is no room for thought or any type of real personality or creativity, where at least in Divergent, the people of Chicago are still allowed to think the way they want and express themselves the way that they want to as