The Divergent Series & The Giver: A Stroll into the Post-geometric World
The Divergent Series & The Giver: A Stroll into the Post-geometric World

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes comparatively the first installment of the Divergent series and The Giver, two post-apocalyptic movies from 2014, within the general frame of the post-geometric episteme emerging within post-structuralism and beyond. Both are teenager movies, related to specific rites of initiation into seemingly perfect societies, structured in casts or in so-called factions, and both express a crisis particular to those dystopian, post-apocalyptic worlds which rely on a utopian syntax in order to respond to a historical cataclysm. The paper will also compare them to Orson Scott Card’s Ender Saga, but the main dilemma of the demonstration might be summarized as follows: is nature capable of healing the wounds of a post-apocalyptic world, or do you need an anti-human – that is, dystopian – dictatorship in order to survive and go further? Apart from their totalitarian geography, both films talk primarily about human regression, violence and power.

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