Social scripts can override individual moral complexity entirely.

Evidence

No longer just a doll, at the end she appears to be an automaton fulfilling programmed instructions from the cultural zeitgeist. There is a sense that by embracing her fate, the Doll, with no way out, has finally turned into the murdering madwoman the press have invented. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 357

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘automaton fulfilling programmed instructions’ motif resonates with We (Zamyatin) in the library — forced conformity to a collective script.
• BMF: The Doll’s becoming the murdering madwoman the press invented echoes how White Noise’s protagonist is absorbed into media-manufactured catastrophe personas — both figures surrender agency to a cultural script about violence.