The Power Of Leadership In The Divergent, By Veronica Roth

The Divergent is a wonderful novel, written by Veronica Roth, that highlights the problems that power-hungry leaders cause by utilizing its wide range of characteristics and personalities. The characters live in a normal environment that is controlled by many leaders. It reveals how closely related it is to real life. Several other characters evolve into this state of selfishness that causes them to endanger the society.

The lust for power is displayed by Jeanine Mathews. She is the leader of Erudite and attempts to eradicate the abnegation and control the Dauntless faction. Power makes her grow more and more hungry for dominance. This led to complete chaos within this utopian setting. Through the struggles of the dauntless faction, many of

The process is more of a competition than learning. People just want to do good and gain power to make sure that they are the only ones to get a certain job or raise. The people stopped caring about this earth, but more of themselves. Will stated,” Jeanine’s so smart you can see it even before she says anything. Like a walking, talking computer (Roth 317)”, which means that she was one of the smartest people within her faction. This intelligence made her very deadly, because she was doing whatever she can to gain control over all of the factions and will stop at nothing even if it means to completely get rid of a whole faction. Selfishness was one of the traits that Mathews acquired in the book. This resulted her to be the most hated character in the book. Mathews is an important character in the novel because she demonstrates how too much power is bad for anyone. She is a prime example of what power does to good people. Roth used this character very well and displayed many consequences of the problem with too much power.

This is a great book that I recommend to everyone. The book clearly underlines the importance of knowing how dangerous the craving for power can be. This theme of power in the novel made it easy to relate to real life situations and helped open my eyes on a topic that I never really thought of until now. Overall now I see the dangers of too much power and how it could change a person’s personality completely. Power is a very controversial topic with pools of thought about it, because everyone sees a different version of