Causes and Effects of Society's Failure

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Washington Bailey once declared in his speech given to commemorate the 24th anniversary of emancipation, “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe”. Ancient Rome, America during the Civil Rights Era, HItler and the Nazis, and the society in the book Divergent by Veronica Roth never thought their civilizations would come to an end, but they did. Corrupt government, discrimination, and poverty can cause a once great society to come tumbling down in the blink of an eye. The end of a great society's reign can happen at anytime.

Political corruption can be a contributing factor to a society's downfall. In Divergent Janine Matthews, the Erudite leader, was trying to overthrow the Abnegation, the faction in control of the government, by publishing articles and spreading rumors to turn people against them and put the Erudite in control. She used propaganda to do this. Tris, the main character began to notice a change in how people socialized with the Abnegation. She informed the readers on this ongoing issue when she said, “This sort of thing has been happening to others in my faction for months now- the Erudite have been releasing antagonistic reports about Abnegation, and it has to affect the way we relate at school” (Roth 6). Similar to Janine Matthews in Divergent, Hitler and his army used propaganda to take over Germany and other places in Europe. Hitler and Janine both used propaganda to become popular with the people. The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies writes, “These carefully-crafted messages were designe...

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