Human beings are fascinating. They constantly are adapting, to changes in their environment, to survive. Whether the environment itself becomes unlivable or the resources needed for human survival are no longer at their disposal. Humans simply adapt and move on to another place or make do with what they have. The human’s ability to adapt also applies to morality, not only survival. The brain of almost all individuals is wired to want to do good deeds and be honorable, but it’s difficult and everyone wants the easy way out. It’s so much easier to do evil and be evil although the option to be good still stands. People follow and perform what is the least work or what is not burdensome, so all it takes is one to infect the rest. Agreeing with Tris’s mother when she says, “Look where they got us. Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.”
In Divergent there are five separate factions that together make up the society. These factions all stand for different characteristics: bravery, intelligence, selflessness, honesty, and peacefulness. Nevertheless in each and every faction, no matter how righteous selflessness and peacefulness seem, brews pits of evil with touches here and there of goodness. For example, Marcus is from Abnegation, one of the most pure sounding factions dealing with selflessness, but he beat his son, Tobias a.k.a Four. Marcus told Tobias it was for his own good; however all he was doing was traumatizing a child to where he still is today still mortified of his own father and could care less for him. Not that his father doesn’t deserve it, but a child shouldn’t have to be raised that way into life. An additional example is the fact that the Erudite Jeanine Matthews made such a good look for herself to the public of all factions that no one would’ve ever begun to imagine the kind of horrors she thought of and created to destroy innocent people and their...
