Do the factions cover all personality?

[sush_destiny]

They cover basic personalities, but personality is not like a box. They are layers and would result in more divergent people.

[dorebri2020]

I believe that each faction combined covers the traits fairly well, but individually I find it hard to believe that anyone could have really identified with just one faction. I do wish there had been a few more factions, as the unique traits of every human being are far more diversified than just five, but overall I thought the factions were set well.

[girly girl]

I think they cover most personalities, the ones they don't are more complex-divergent. Or at least that's how I understood it.

[Atara Miles]

I think they were mostly archetypes. Possibly there are others that fall in the gray area but weren't deemed as important or as prevalent as the stated five. It can also be that Roth didn't want to overload her story with too many factions that would have been too hard for readers to keep track of and ot was easier to slot the relevant characters into what would have been more relatable and memorable.

[nfdoughe]

As a plot, the factions work, but as a reality, I do think it's quite flawed. I think people are more complicated than one overriding quality. I think there are numerous types of people left unaccounted for. What about people who aren't particularly brave, friendly, smart, or honest? I think there would be more people left out. So all in all it only works if you don't think about it too hard.

[Balena]

If you were to generalize people and their personality, I definitely think that you can just about fit everybody into a faction. However, it wouldn't be a perfect fit; some people may have multiple traits from different factions and some may not feel that they fit in at all.

The ones that are Divergent to me are the ones that have multiple unique traits that overlap into the other factions or even traits that aren't found in the others.

[Barbara Larkin]

I think the five factions do represent core traits. There are, of course, going to be variances and not all personalities are going to be exactly alike, but, for the most part, the five factions portray dominant features.

[yapashley]

I think those are the most general personalities. There would be sub-personalities for each faction afterwards.

[Edna016]

Well, I do think the factions covered basically all the personalities. There can be just the general personalities then personalities can go in deeper. There can be sub personalities of course like how some general personalities are feeling happy sad and then it can go deeper than that. So generally yes they covered all the personalities.

[Reader 05]

I was just thinking about the factions and the different personality traits, or at least the core personality traits in each person, and I was wondering what your guys' thoughts were on this. Are there any "core" personality types or traits that aren't represented in the five factions? If so, what do you guys think they would be?

I'm racking my brain to come up with some because I'm sure there are some I just can't think of them! I'd love to know what you all think.

I think that she covered all the personality traits in a nutshell, if she had created more factions based on each individual personality it would have made the novel confusing.

[Janet Kimetto]

I think the factions covered all the basic personality traits. It would be rare for a person not to have at least one of the traits represented, but they could have more.

[kirthana_shivakumar]

No. Firstly, "honesty" (Candor) doesn't seem a personality trait to me at all. It is a choice one makes, a part of behaviour rather than personality. Secondly, the factions confuse personality traits with choice in profession. Just because someone is brave does that mean they want to be guards? No, they might want to be anything.

[Shridhar Suryawanshi]

Of course the factions don't cover all the personalities. Humans don't have just have five characteristics. There is so much more. I can't imagine living in one of the factions because I would that to be that for the rest of my life.

[Phyll Kamau]

I do not believe that people can be fully described using the five factions. Human beings are more complex than that. Just because someone likes seeking knowledge does not mean they cannot genuinely love others, be selfless or fearless. People have layers; therefore, I feel the faction system is baseless.

[jimmy02]

I believe the factions cover the mainstream personality types. And well, even to some extent, the unique personality types.