A number of Lessing's novels deal with the splintering relationships among a common group of political activists for the Communist cause. The Golden Notebook contains a lengthy novel within a novel by character Anna Wulf that depicts the breaking up of a group as their personal agendas and personalities conflict. Anna and her friend Mollie's participation in the cause has weakened as individual differences cause splintering. Her series Canopus in Argos: Archives also addresses issues of individuality versus the group's common ideologies.