Outcasts need no straight society to be rebels against

Evidence

The characters are not rebels, for there is no straight society for them to raise rebellion against. What lies in their past is vague but ghastly. You don’t want or need to know. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 404

Categorization

• SEED: Useful framing for character-building: establish a world so mad that the protagonist needs no foil, and keep backstory vague-but-ghastly rather than explained.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 404