Delirium Series: Difference between revisions

* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]: Everyone is under constant surveillance, even in their own homes. Regulators and other enforcers of the [[Police State]] are told to watch for any behaviors indicative of "amor deliria nervosa."

* [[Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage]]: At eighteen, everyone gets a list of four potential matches to choose from.

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Rachel used to be this, before the procedure.

* [[Crap Saccharine World]]/[[Crapsack World]]: Much is made about how curing people of the ability to love has increased social stability, but over the course of the book, many things are exposed that are wrong with the society that Lena lives in.

* [[Culture Police]]: Dancing, poetry, certain types of music, loud laughter and public displays of affection are all banned.

* [[Cure Your Gays]]: One of the intended effects of the procedure.

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Lena's whole family, basically.

* [[Fag Hag]]: Lena's first friends in {{spoiler|the resistance}}, apart from Raven, are a gay couple named Bram and Hunter.

* [[Foil]]: Lena's friend Hana is her opposite in almost every way - taller, wealthier, more stylish and more outspoken against the system. However, when Lena asks her to {{spoiler|escape into the wild with her and Alex, Hana doesn't dare to leave her comfortable lifestyle.}} In the end, it turns out ''Lena'' is actually the braver of the two.

* [[For Your Own Good]]: {{spoiler|Lena's family, trying to force her to be cured.}}

** In the sequel, there's "Correction, Regulation And Prevention". Check the initials.

* [[The Great Escape]]: {{spoiler|Both Mrs. Haloway and, with Alex's help, Lena herself escaping from her own home just before she's "cured".}}

* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: Lena and Hana, to the point where they come up with a [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Portmanteau Friendship Name]], "Halena"

* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: When Lena and Alex visit the Crypts, the combined maximum-security prison and mental institution, they find {{spoiler|Lena's mother's empty room with LOVE written all over the walls along with a keepsake from Lena's father.}}

* [[Scenery Porn]]: Who wouldn't want to visit Portland, Maine (that is, the present-day democratic one) after reading this novel?

* [[Scrapbook Story]]: Each chapter begins with a children's rhyme or a quote from a historical, medical or religious textbook from Lena's world. Some of them are quite bizarre, such as the rhyming Periodic Table, or the skewed Biblical myths that present Mary Magdalene and Joseph as separated lovers.