Within Little Souls, Nicole Zefanya describes the growth of a curious and passionate child into a bland, indistinguishable adult who fails to find “home”. She attributes the assimilation of adults into a “black and white” world to the increase in their social duties, which cause their priorities to change. Zefanya claims that these adults age to forget their own identities and fail to define unique purposes because suddenly, all that matters is what is simple and comfortable. Zefanya attempts to reveal the nature of these adults as being physical “houses” with negligible souls that fail to transform them into “homes”. Despite this, she ends the song with a stroke of optimism, claiming that the death of the body can result in the life of the soul. Thus, Little Souls stimulates the subject of philosophical identity within human …show more content…
The platonic view would agree with this premise, as it asserts the existences of the World of Being, containing intangible values such as love, and the World of Becoming, consisting of physical and bodily things. The World of Being is the origin of the essence and it allows for it to be constant, as the intangible values do not change. The World of Becoming, however, is bodily and, in it, the essence is subject to surfaced change. The purpose of being in the World of Becoming is to rediscover one’s essence, but often, the other distracts one from this path of rediscovery. Let us take as an example a freshman student who is utterly alone. The freshman student observes the popular seniors who are worshipped by all and attempts to reciprocate their abuse of drugs to appear superior and to feel accepted. His new drug addiction disturbs the relationship he has with his parents, because he is no longer kind or emotionally intelligent - he has destroyed his essence due to his lack of acknowledgement of