orm who a person is. The author Doris Lessing, uses the protagonist's extra sensitivity and perception as a handicap in a society organized as ours is; one that favors conformity, the average, the obedient, however restricting his character, personality and actual self, therefore creating the conflict between achieving the standards and normalities determined by society or maintaining the individuality of one's true self while deviating from the expected; ultimately calling to question personality itself.

"... humanity, with its fellow creatures, the animals and the plants, make up a whole, are a unity, have a function in the whole... their (humans') inability to feel, or understand themselves, in any other way except through their own drives and functions. They have not yet evolved into an understanding of all humanity, their own species, let alone achieving a conscious knowledge of humanity as part of nature... all these together making a small chord in the Cosmic Harmony." (128- 129)

The self is an entity that is almost impossible to keep pure and true to itself. While in that short- lived stage when innocence prevails over society, the self is able to develop the foundation of who you are going to be. By allowing this impartial, and most often unique expression of feelings, ideas, and emotions, a person is able to experience the purist form of life and all it has to offer with out guilt or shame, only the truth. The self is able to construct ideas and feelings through experiences entirely of its own. After that line of innocence is crossed, the desire to be true to one's own self can be difficult. Because your individuality is exactly that, what makes you different from others, it may mean that you deviate from the norm of society. Society is an influence that people are forced to contend with everyday. Society is an ever- present factor in daily life. For Charles he was both the enforcer of society's stipulations, as a Professor who taught the standards of societies in his anthropology lectures, and the obeyer of the standards by wearing the appropriate attire and using proper language. By achieving a norm, determined usually my the majority or the most powerful, a society can manipulate a person to conform to the ways of all the others. Sinbad really had no society to tell him what to wear or do, but he saw the manipulativeness of society while studying the animals. In the beginning the rat- dogs and the monkeys got along just fine, they lived in the same territories, shared the same food and water supplies, and "... it seemed as if both species recognized the right of the other to live in this place." (78) but then as the monkeys were found insuperior to the rat- dogs, there became emotions such as jealousy and hatred, followed soon by fighting and killing. In this case society turned two species against each other by creating standards and prejudices. Society can be good as well as bad. A close society is able to rely on other members to help when in need for example Charles' case. Charles, a member of society, was having a lot of trouble because of his amnesia, so the other members of society, the doctors and his friends and family, did everything in their power to return him to his good health. However some people grow too dependent on society and then they are no longer able to think for themselves and make decisions on their own.

This realization was not an easy one for Charles. "Sort of a divorce there has been somewhere along the path of this race of man between the "I" and the "we", some sort of a terrible falling away, and I (who am not I, but a part of a whole composed of other human beings as they are of me)... feel as if I am spinning back... into a vortex of terror..." (109) The concept that everything you do has an indirect influence on everyone and everything is a hard idea to grasp if you are not prepared to understand something as complex as it is. The world as similar and

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