Marcus Eaton is the father of Tobias "Four" Eaton, the leader of the Abnegation and the head of board for the whole city. The author did a brilliant job explaining the role Marcus plays in the book and she used him as an antagonist however for only a brief amount of time at the end to set up the next book. Marcus is very crucial to the story line because without him beating Tobias, Tobias would have never joined Dauntless therefore altering the story line. Marcus’s wife dies when Tobias is very young and Marcus takes it upon himself to raise Tobias correctly even if that meant physically punishing him by whipping him on the back. Marcus created a sense of terror for Tobias, forcing him to move to a different faction. Marcus uses his persuasive and deceptive skills to get people to believe and like him even though he isn’t the right person for the leadership roles in the government. It is later revealed that Marcus came from Erudite and that is where he learned to be so deceptive and how he knows so many things about how the factions work. Nearing the climax and at the end of the book Marcus becomes a main character in the book because of the information he knows. Tobias shares his memories and insecurities with Beatrice who takes on them and she becomes very weary of Marcus yet she still asks for his help. Overall, Marcus is a very well-rounded character, by well-rounded I mean she shows us all of his sides and uses his personalities to manipulate the story in a good direction, and the author did a great job describing and showing Marcus’s qualities in the book. Without Marcus the story would have taken a different direction or maybe not have happened at all. For example, without the many stories about abuse, as demonstrated in the above Newspaper clipping, the factions would have had no reason to doubt the Abnegation government and therefore the revolution wouldn’t have started.
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