A changing environment requires adaptation and change as a prerequisite to survival. Survival in changed worlds such as in The Two Towers by J.R.Tolken, The Matrix by the Wachalsci brothers and Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden all require extreme changes psychologically, both as an individual and in a group or unit environment.
The psychological effect that a changing environment, and therefore the need for adaptation, has upon the individual varies depending upon the subject person/s. These changes often include either a change in perspective and/or an adaptation in thought processes. The Wachalsci brothers' The Matrix takes its main character, Neo, and places him in a new 'reality', whereby giving new perspective to the way Neo views his existence. Neo's survival depends greatly upon his adaptation to his new environment and also on the efforts of other individuals within his group to allow him, in the words of Morpheus, to "...free
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Elijah Wood as Frodo in Peter Jackson's live-actio...your mind." Another character who experiences a psychological change in both perspective and thought processes is Cypher. Cypher' reaction to continued exposure of a changing and unstable environment led to his eventual betrayal of Morpheus, and ultimately his own death. This obvious change in thought processes and perspective led him to believe that he had learnt that "Ignorance is bliss." Cyphers inability to properly adapt to his environment and resulting demise can do little other than prove the fact that survival in a changing world requires adaptation and change on the part of the individual. The main character of J.R.Tolken's series, The Lord of the Rings, Frodo, is an individual thrust from a peaceful routine environment into a world of responsibility, violence and horror. This sudden change required of Frodo that he adapt to his new situation or die, dooming the rest of middle earth and everyone...