Dystopian Argument Essay

In dystopian literature it's coming that the Author is trying to portray a message involving a controlling government. Veronica Roth’s novel Divergent displays a dystopian nation where the citizens are split up into 5 factions. Amity; the peaceful. Abnegation; the selfless. Erudite; the intelligent. Candor; the honest. Dauntless; the brave. They are placed in these factions upon the age of 16 they take an aptitude test and their result tell them the faction that would be the best fit for them. The governor keeps it this way in hopes of maintaining peace. The book soon reveals how this plan was going to crumble. Factions had rivalries amongst each other. The “factionless” are viewed as the bottom of the society. If someone was born to be in Erudite but chose to be in Amity and didn't work out they would be kicked out and now factionless; hence being the bottom of the society. This society has instilled fear into their public into pushing themselves to the limit. The way the government controlled the public with fear immediately reminded me of the holocaust. The
In the holocaust “ The number of suicides were greater than the number of attempted suicides.” Unfortunately that is a sad reality. The control and hatred instilled by the government cost many live and caused many to take their own. In the novel there was only one suicide spoken of an that was Al’s Tris viewed the suicide as weak. But the leader of Dauntless tried to brainwash the initiates into thinking it was an act of bravery, “Eric said Al’s suicide was brave, he was wrong.” Even when Eric tried to influence them to believe Al was the bravest of all of them. In both the novel and the Holocaust had very controlling government.They instilled fear into the public and used it to control them. They also had fear of diversity this may be conveying the message that over controlling government may be a result of