

And during Divergent, Jeanne and others actively try to stop divergence from existing. At some point that is forgotten and the five faction system is enforced. Prior to the series:īefore the five faction system was created, as we find out in Insurgent Allegiant, the system was designed to create divergents as a sort of salvation for humanity. In Insurgent, when Erudite creates the Divergence Tester, Eric finds someone that barely counts as divergent.Įric: Hm. Then the next morning, we found his body at the bottom of the chasm. Last day of the simulations, one of the Dauntless leaders came to watch him.

During the second stage, he got good really fast. Like modern day Islamophobia or Racism, where people who may superficially resemble the target get affected. The system has been corrupted to the point where they are overzealous about finding Divergents, that even people jumping factions would be treated as Divergent, even if they arn't. And they treat them the same as Divergents anyway. It's more likely that someone is Divergent than it is for someone to choose outside of their faction. So the reason Four implies that Tris is Divergent, aside from his only status as Divergent and his instructor giving him the same advice for the same reason, is because everyone is on the look out for Divergents. Now during the movie, the system was changed to hunt down divergents as well as turning Dauntless members into brainless weapons. Conform or die be removed from civilized society and become a factionless hobo. If you don't think like the faction you choose, they will reject you, regardless of what the kids were told that they had a choice. Not just divergents, but people who are really a different faction but chose Dauntless, and could bluff or bs their way in. During Tris class, they develop the point cut off to weed out more non-conforming. Before Tris' class, anyone who survived the training passed. Peter: What do you think? You'll be factionless.Īnd then the training comes, where they weed out more. If they don't, they are immediately factionless. Immediately after the ceremony, Beatrice and the others who chose Dauntless face multiple tests to weed out those that arn't really dauntless. However, once the choice has been made, there will be no change permitted.īut choosing to go against the test can have consequences. While it is our belief that choosing the faction indicated by your test is the best way to ensure success within the faction system, it is your right tomorrow at the choosing ceremony to choose any of the five factions, regardless of your test results. And it's so unlikely that non-conformists are rare, compared to Divergents. It's a shocking thing in the faction society.
Dauntless faction series#
Tori: You'll be offered a series of choices to test your aptitude for each faction until you get one result. The fourth option is to be factionless, an outcast.Īs Tori explains, a series of tests (five funny enough) are given, but most end up with their birth faction: But they can choose, to stay with their birth faction, go with the test faction, or the faction they want. During the test, they are found to be one of the five. The kids are raised in their factions, conditioned to believe that faction as the right one. Based solely on the first film, the system in place is not designed to accommodate divergent individuals. It has changed by multiple people for multiple reasons. It was never implied that during their training or otherwise in Dauntless that they would somehow develop all the traits of their host faction. Thus, people who were not destined to Dauntless after T1 would experience similar traits of the faction in which they were destined which shouldn't necessarily make them divergent as it is implied by Four. It doesn't necessarily mean she is "Divergent" if in S1 she acts in such a way as member of another faction would, it could just mean that she was destined for another faction (hypothetically), but because of her free-will she chose Dauntless in T1. The strange part, is that we know that after T1 they can choose whatever faction they want. We learned that this is inherent to the tests at the first test (refereed to T1) meant to understand which faction they should choose (at the beginning of the film).

This implies that a member of one of the other factions would break the glass in that way. "Dauntless don't break the glass like that"
Dauntless faction movie#
In the movie Divergent, Four tells Tris after her psych test (refereed to as S1):
