Divergência, insurgência e convergência: uma análise da trilogia Divergente sob a luz das distopias modernas e contemporâneas

Abstract

In the contemporaneity, the body has been widely discussed and industrialized. The contemporary dystopias have made more acute the issues of body in their narratives, since the genre dystopia is extremely ingrained to the society that conceives it by transposing into a story the fears of this collectivity in a pungent way and in narratives that generally project themselves to the future of humankind. Having established the direct relationship between dystopia and society, this work is based on the conception of Eduardo Marks de Marques, in which there are three strands in the constitution of the genre. The present phase or third dystopian turn has been in force for the last thirty years and has, as an elementary characteristic, the discussion of bodies erected from a capitalist ideal of perfection. In this perspective, the novels Divergent (2012), Insurgent (2013) and Convergent (2014), by Veronica Roth, update dystopian elements from classic works. Among the elements there can be enlisted the history erasing, the sera for containment and social identification and the creation of a new society within another already established. In this bias, we seek to establish a comparison between the novels of the Divergent Trilogy, which focuses on the transfiguration of the body, and some classic novels that are centered on a critique of social policies. From the connections with these two moments of the genre and also from another classic utopias, this work aims to verify how social elements are translated in the narrative of Veronica Roth, in view of the exchange of the political problematic for a transfigured body.