Ian McEwan's novel "On Chesil Beach" set in July 1962 is the story of a few crucial hours in the life of a newly married couple on their first night wedding that goes horribly out of control. It is the story of a day in the life of a young couple, Edward Mayhew and Florence Ponting, who have just married and are spending their honeymoon in a small Dorset seaside hotel at Chesil Beach, on the English Channel. There is a significant difference in the couple's family status, with Edward, the son of a schoolmaster, and Florence, the musically gifted daughter of a wealthy industrialist and Oxford professor of philosophy. However, both are intelligent and cultured young people with promising futures. The story chronicles the course of events of a fateful evening in which both meditate throughout the evening on their anxieties for the first time. McEwan continues to loosen and narrow the focus on the events of the present with interludes about the couple's upbringing and prospects for their future. Interspersed with episodes from the present, in which the author enters and exits the consciousness of the main characters, there are flashbacks to last year, when the couple met, fell in love and married. Both are very much in love with each other. each other and anticipate the future while anxious about the approaching wedding night. The author makes readers roll their eyes with enthusiasm from the first lines: "They were young, educated and both virgins on this wedding night, and they lived in a time when a conversation about sexual difficulties was clearly impossible." But it's never easy." [1]The story is set in a time before the sexual revolution, in which sex was still unacceptable outside the narrow scope... at the center of the paper... in the historical context of the novel Both protagonists experience considerable personal suffering and endure the inability to achieve a satisfying relationship essentially due to the predispositions of their time and the resulting personal insufficiencies. The era is of great importance in portraying a picture of culturally and socially repressive attitudes in the comparisons of sex and sexuality, the existence of harsh laws on birth control and abortion and, finally, social and economic status McEwan skillfully describes the direct and indirect impact of culture and society on people's lives and how, inevitably, people suffer the consequences. While he explores the impact of cultural issues, he does not deny personal decisions when he says: "The entire course of a life can be changed without doing anything." [166]And Edward is guilty of doing nothing.