What is the theme of Chapter 10? Why dis you select this theme?

One important theme presented in Chapter Ten involves the role of women, specifically, a young woman’s obligation to marry. David describes Rosalind’s pressures to get married, as well as her mother's introduction of several suitors. In Anne’s marriage to Alan, she demonstrates that she feels she must follow the societal regulations of marrying, despite knowing that it will endanger the telepathic community. Both Harriet’s death, likely suicide, and Anne’s death by suicide, emphasize the bleak prospects available for women in this dystopian future.