Today is the day I round off my blog I suppose, given that our winter class has officially concluded as of today. Given that I'm 5 (6?) blog posts behind at the moment, expect lots of content.
In this post I address the issue of strange characters in OSAF. It's incredibly odd how many of them there are--Quig, Miss Cathy, the Circus Family, Vik, Oliver, Betty, the creepy-eyed girls. Even Fan herself is very strange (never speaks yet has a magnetic personality, manages to stay physically fit while pregnant for how long?). What's even stranger to me is why all of these characters manage to be so strange in a supposed utopia (or at the very least, a society farther into the future than we are).
Quite a few of these characters are successful men and women in Charter villages, and are therefore citizens of the highest class. Our description of those in the Charter villages tells us that they are the best of the best, those who rise to the top of the facilities and those who have been groomed toward perfection from an early age. Yet, these are the same characters who are so shockingly strange. And not just by our standards--any man who would be okay with his wife having an affair would be an outlier in any generation.
My hunch is that this unrelenting pressure to succeed in the Charters in every conceivable way leads to a few loose screws. Thoughts?
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