Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Scripps Senior Theses Scripps Student Scholarship 2014 The ounY g Adult Dystopia as Bildungsroman: Formational Rebellions Against Simplicity in Westerfeld's Uglies and Roth's Divergent Elena Sharma Scripps College Recommended Citation Sharma, Elena, "The ounY g Adult Dystopia as Bildungsroman: Formational Rebellions Against Simplicity in Westerfeld's Uglies and Roth's Divergent" (2014). Scripps Senior Theses. Paper 431. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/431 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Scripps Student Scholarship at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scripps Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE YOUNG ADULT DYSTOPIA AS BILDUNGSROMAN: FORMATIONAL REBELLIONS AGAINST SIMPLICITY IN WESTERFELD’S UGLIES AND ROTH’S DIVERGENT by ELENA D. SHARMA SUBMITTED TO SCRIPPS COLLEGE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS PROFESSOR PEAVOY PROFESSOR WERNIMONT APRIL 25, 2014 2 Contents Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………..3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………..4 Chapter One: Individual and Society…………………………………………….13 Chapter Two: Identity Formation………………………………………………..27 Chapter Three: Formational Relationships………………………………………38 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………….51 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………..56 3 Acknowledgements To Professor Peavoy, whose patience and insight throughout this process has been invaluable – he helped me realize what I truly wanted to write about and gave me a space for it. He was the first professor I met here at Scripps when I interviewed with him and so it is in true poetic fashion that he has guided me to this end. To Professor Wernimont, who has taught me how to dream of other worlds and how all ideas deserves to be dreamed and explored.