Tori Ramfos
Mrs. Coe
English 9
28 June 2015 Faction Over Blood Too much government control can be frightening according to the novel Divergent by Veronica Roth. Government fears Divergents because everything and anything is possible when dealing with one. It can mean living life fearlessly or it can mean living life in complete fear of whether or not the government finds out what faction a person fits into, if any. A utopian society seems like perfection to some people, however a perfect society can also cause damage by eliminating free will. The government in Divergent, prides itself on stealing people's identity to create an identity that is satisfying to them. That is wrong on so many levels. The Dauntless faction is surrounded
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Furthermore, psychological control is a strong characteristic of a Dauntless person. The ability to psychologically control your own feelings or even someone else’s fits into the dystopian genre. Although the government's goal of having a utopia seemed harmless to some people, Divergent has proven that trying to have ultimate control over a society is not only harmful but deadly. Tris said, “Soon the leaders will notice that whatever signals everyone else is getting, I’m not getting them. What will I do if that happens?” (Roth 423). This is the point where Tris uses her psychological control to calm herself by reminding herself to be still. The government's idea of utopia slowly became a dystopian society as people rebelled and used their own power and control to defeat the …show more content…
In Divergent, the government's goal of a utopia started off by controlling people by fear by having them tested to see what faction they best fit into. People were scared to see where they best fit and even more scared if they didn’t fit into any faction. “No. I shake my head. I should not be afraid of this man. He needs help and I am supposed to help him” ((Roth 25). Tris realizes the way government is breaking people down just because they may not be as strong as others and become factionless. The government structure led to a dystopian
Christian Nestell Bovee, a famous epigrammatic New York writer, once said, “No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.” This quote ties in wonderfully with the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and the concept of control. In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley captured the true essences of a perfect dystopia. With people living seamless happy lives, and not knowing they are being controlled. How does one control entire nation? The World State does this by hatching, conditioning, and a synthetic drug called soma.
Imagine the world we are living in today, now imagine a world where we are told who to marry, where to work, who to hate and not to love. It is hard to imagine right, some people even today are living in the world actually have governments that are controlling their everyday life. In literature many writers have given us a view of how life may be like if our rights as citizen and our rights simply as human beings. One day the government may actually find a way to control and brainwash people into beings with no emotions like they have in the book 1984 where they express only hate, because that’s what they have been taught by the party.
How does the power of an evil, controlling government negatively affect the lives of numerous humans in a society? In Anthem, by Ayn Rand, the communist government takes away one’s individuality by coercing the characters to obey strict rules and forcing the members of society to work only as a group. Equality, the protagonist, struggles to find joy and satisfaction in conforming to society’s demands, and encounters conflict as he comes to realize the flaws in his civilization. By comparison, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 illustrates the dangers of the unnatural dependency on technology that causes citizens to be ignorant and shallow in order for the government to control their thoughts and actions. As the story progresses, the main character,
The novel “Divergent” by the author Veronica Roth is a 1st person point of view, she tells
A system that manipulates its people into thinking they have freedom creates a stronger government.
The definition of a government is “a governing body of a nation state, and community”(Merriam-Webster). The Dystopian that we live in today is probably the same as in the book 1984 and the movie Divergent. However, there many other things that are different. One of those things is that there are no rebelling against. Also there is no different parties within the government. Most importantly, our government doesn’t control what the people do, and they don’t force people to do anything. People today can do and say what they want without the government knowing, or without the government looking over your shoulder. After reading the book 1984 and watching the the movie Divergent, there are a lot of themes that both the book and the movie have
...o most it is an unattainable goal of perfection. People are no longer looking to themselves for identity; they are abiding by media’s demands and adopting a forced identity. In order for a dystopia to thrive there has to be a mechanical structure where a single outer appearance has the most valuein society. This superficiality ultimately leads to a world of misery, unhappiness and destruction. While reading dystopian literature and watching dystopian Tv shows and movies it is easy to see the depravity of human kind that comes from central control of ideas such as appearance and beauty. In our society media’s grip on audience and control of all the images available makes it possible to control the way people feel about their appearance and individuality.
In 1984, George Orwell explores the many facets of a negative utopia. Orwell seems to focus on the measures that the government takes to maintain a public of plebeians who have no personality or identity and believe that they are not unique individuals, but instead are part of a greater senseless mob of people who constantly work for a hostile and oppressive government which is involved in incessant wars. These people are taught to love. They then learn to fear their government because they believe all of the propaganda that is constantly instilled into their minds. They willing follow their government without contest for the duration of their meaningless lives. The government controls all forms of the media (thus denying the people the basic right of free speech) and use it to personify the government (known as “big brother”) .The government therefore seems omnipotent, or all knowing and always correct. Forecasts are changed from one week to the next always proving the government was correct. As was mentioned before, many of the rights that present day Westerners take for gran...
Bad blood is a book that was written James H. Jones who is an associate professor of History. The book narrates on how the government through the department of Public Health service (PHS) authorized and financed a program that did not protect human values and rights. The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment which was conducted between 1932 and 1972 where four hundred illiterate and semi-illiterate black sharecroppers in Alabama recently diagnosed with syphilis were sampled for an experiment that was funded by the U.S Health Service to prove that the effect of untreated syphilis are different in blacks as opposed to whites. The blacks in Macon County, Alabama were turned into laboratory animals without their knowledge and the purpose of the experiment
“ One Choice can transform you”- Then how can someone be certain it is right?
Our fascination with utopias stems from our attraction to and pursuit of progress within our own society. We study utopias with the hope that our society will someday evolve into one. But what often goes unnoticed is that if our society improves enough to become utopian, it won't be able to improve any longer. Hence, it will be rigid and unchanging, the complete opposite of what it was as it evolved to its elevated state. This is an awful truth for us because we place value and virtue in the ideas of desire and progress. Our reason tells us: once in an ideal land, desire cannot simply cease to be, because desire is part of our human nature. And our reason is right. An ideal society should accentuate our human nature, not suppress it. As we desire a perfect society we know that a perfect could not exist without our desire. And as long as we desire, we hope for progress. The idea that an utopia wouldn't allow such progress to occur is enough to make us stop believing in utop...
Divergent is set in a futuristic Chicago were everyone is separated into 5 sections of Chicago. Throughout the story the characters take trips to the Ferris Wheel of Navy Prier, the Hancock building, the Willis (formally Sears) Tower, and Millennium Park.
As we allow our Government to take over society, we will continue to live with fear and constant terror. Wars will continue to destroy lives and tear contries apart. A government will only have power if we allow them to control society. It all depends on who is apart of this Counil and how much power they can have over us. If we allow the Government to have to muich power it will lead to a tolitarian society such as Oceana. If we do not work together to obtain true peace and love, fear will control us and the human race will seize to exist.
it does not keep the country free. it does not settle the west. it does not educate”(276). In pink floyd's video they say “we don't need no thought control”. This is saying that Pink Floyd and Thoreau agree that the government is trying to control society and make them do things. The government is powerful and they try to control society and they have to obey the rules that they provide for people and if they don't they are punished for it even if such laws are unfair people have to go along with them people have to obey them or suffer the consequences. Thoreau also says that the government is like a machine. The machine will soon get old and rusty therefore it will have to be replace and thoreau thinks the government is the same way it will soon need to be replaced with something else an alternate
Governments should be afraid of their people.”3( Quoted by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta) .In contrasts to the definition of authoritarianism, power is no longer in the hands of one ruler; but it now rests in the hands of the citizens of the state. According to Robert Dahl; “democratic theory is concerned with processes by which ordinary citizens exert a relatively high degree of control over leaders;”4 ( Quoted by Robert A. Dahl, A Preface to Democratic Theory, expanded edition). Dahl expressed that citizens are a definite factor for this political system to further define the system of democracy in a state. In one of Dahl’s work; “On Democracy”, he made a criteria on how Democracy works. In this criterion he expressed that this system does not give you what you want but gives you the chance to fight for what you want. The citizens are highly active in this system, because they get to address the needs of the community as a whole and not as individuals, and if it represents the majority, then the leader will grant this request for the citizens. The beauty of this system is that it represents all types of non-violent movements without absolute freedom. It even highlights the term “Public Servants” to the state. It bonds the representatives and constituents. When it comes to weighing in the cons, I believe that the only downfall for this system is that, because it is somewhat transparent, citizens can figure out the leader’s next move and they can easily take advantage of this. With that being said, people might think they have absolute freedom, and instead of asking for what they need, they might just start asking for what they