It refers to environment, culture and experience.
Answer:
the narrator feels an overwhelming responsibility to meet society's expectations
she thinks " we take the same medicine"
or
"we take the same medicine" I thought
hope you get it right coz I'm not sure if it is correct
but still hope I helped
Soma is a drug that is handed out for free to all the citizens of the World State. In small doses, soma makes people feel good. John sees soma as a tool of social control. He says that taking soma makes the citizens of the World State “slaves.”
The appropriate response is compound subject. A compound subject is a subject comprised of at least two straightforward subjects that are joined by a planning conjunction and that have a similar predicate. sentence may have more than one straightforward subject or basic predicate. A compound subject is at least two basic subjects that have a similar predicate.