"Home, home-a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells." (pg. 37)
Everyone has had those moments where we wish we could just get away from our family. We just want to pull our hair out sometimes when we're around them. This imagery makes us feel what the students are feeling, which is pretty much disgust that people live this way. Honestly, if I had no previous experience with what a family really is, and this is all I'd ever been told, then yes, I would definitely think the way they do. However, this description is mostly inaccurate. Sure, there are times when we feel this way about our families, but the way the Controller explains the family relationship is that experience times infinity. It doesn't include any of the positive aspects. This makes me wonder what details of the past our society has shut away. This is about 500 years in the future, so looking back 500 years to the Middle Ages and the arranged marriages and everything from that time, we consider all of that crazy. We probably consider their way of living and thinking as illogical as the people of Brave New World consider ours.
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