How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
For days afterward, they broadcast the image of the dead girl's face on television to remind us of the dangers of the deliria. (1.9)
Ah, this is a textbook technique in any fear-mongering society. Here, the futuristic government of Delirium is engendering fear in the people by creating a bogey man the government can "protect" the people from: love.
Quote #2
[Romeo and Juliet is] frightening: That's what I'm supposed to say. It's a cautionary tale, a warning about the dangers of the old world, before the cure. (4.45)
Romeo and Juliet is a little scary in a way. If everyone acted as emotional and irrational as those two, we'd never get anything accomplished in this world. And it can be read as a cautionary tale, we think. But not as a dictum that all love should be abolished in the world.
Quote #3
Someday we will all be saved. (5.12)
Lena believes that her fear of love is fine and rational and good for everyone. She projects it onto everyone else, thinking they all want to be saved from the deliria too. There's kind of a religious connotation to the idea of being "saved" as well. Do you think Lena is right? Does everyone want to be saved, whether they say they do or not?