This can be seen in the New Testament when reading about Messiah. The Gospel of Matthew has highly relied on the knowledge of its audience of the Old Testament to convey the ideas he has given. Mathew wrote his Gospel, particularly for a Jewish Audience and in his Gospel many times he tries to relate Jesus with
Though their own writings, each authors try to explain how their identity has been created due to the expression of their own identity. For example, in “Our Secret”, Griffin often refers to the thread of Himmler’s life by bringing up his childhood diary. Writing a diary is the only way for Griffin to express his true identity, but it wasn’t entirely his own expression because his father is observing him while he was writing his diary, “The man behind the desk does not raise his head to nod. He continues to write. He puts his pen down and looks up at the young man” (Griffin, 253).
In the essay, In Defense of Masks, Kenneth Gergen’s view on a identity (mask) is that people do not develop a single identity. He explains how people’s masks modify in order to gain approval from a specific group of people. Individuals use masks to create a false identity. In over time, those masks become reality. Gergen sees an identity as a way to develop a unique mask.
Iranian writer, Firoozeh Dumas, in her narrative essay, “The F Word,”illustrates the challenges of having a different name in America. Dumas’ purpose is to represent the importance of accepting one’s identity and other’s. Having a different name brought her a great challenge to fit in with her peers. Through the story, she learned how to accept her own name and how should others accept people’s differences. She portrays this idea in a humorous way.
William Shakespeare once said, "To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. " Dating back to Elizabethan Literature, self-identity has always been deemed as essential. Fast forward to modern times, the authors of more contemporary works have taken the same concept of identity but have revealed the way actions taken can influence an individual 's understanding of themselves. For example, in John Howard Griffin 's memoir, Black Like Me and Wes Moore 's memoir, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates were both authors encounter lifestyles of similar individuals.
An author may make use of a pseudonym for several reasons. With their writing becoming public comes a certain responsibility which the author had to accept. As Carby brings
Is it honors, degrees, or accomplishments of some kind? Is it the person’s DNA? I think a person’s true Identity is defined by who they are and how they act around people. Phony, a term used to describe a person who acts like a person who they are really not, is opposite of a person’s true identity. After reading the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, I think the main character Jay Gatsby is a phony and fakes his true identity around other people in the story.
Toni Morrison uses Pilate’s motif of names to represent the importance of heritage to Milkman. Beginning with her own name, Pilate embraced the name her father gave her despite the connotations it carried. She appreciated how thoughtfully he chose it to the point of wearing it in her ear. Before travelling to Virginia, Milkman’s name bore no significance to him. He didn’t know the history of his family, and he didn’t go by his given name.
Allusions to Christ or other aspects of religion are found in literature all throughout history. There are many different reasons why authors tie in these elements of religion. It could be to provide characterization or help provide reasoning and explanation for the overall theme. Two well known authors do this in some of their most famous pieces: Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Using Research Assignment A key component of being a successful writer is having an identity. For an author, an identity provides a recognizable voice that separates them from everyone else. Identity expresses itself through writing and poetry in many forms. For authors such as James Baldwin and Gwendolyn Brooks, who wrote in the time of the Harlem Renaissance, this identity conveyed optimism voicing the difficulties of being African American in what felt like a white America.
Why do people change their name? Have you ever thought of changing you name? Why do certain authors change their name? Such as Stephen King or C.S Lewis. Although some of these writers felt they had no choice or actually had no choice at all.
Frequently in stories, and in real life, people appear to have multiple identities. For example, in William Kennedy’s novel, Legs, the main character, Jack Diamond, develops three distinct identities. There is John Diamond when he is in private, Jack Diamond when the public thinks of him, and lastly there is Legs when he is mythicized. In the film, Miller’s Crossing, the Coen brothers develop their main character, Tom Reagan in a very different style.
We decide our own identity, we are not someone else just because of a name. Our self image and self opinion about ourselves make us who we are today. Finally, Adam finds his identity “I wonder who the doctor is talking to, this somebody he calls Paul. Who is Paul? I know I am not Paul.
The short stories “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The guest” by Albert Camus, “The Dead” by James Joyce, and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman are all very interesting. At first glance these stories seem like they have absolutely nothing in common. They’re from different time periods, written by different authors, and all take place in a different location. After much thought, the theme of identity has made itself very clear in all four works. Whether identity unclear to the reader or the main character, there is a sense of false identity present in all four stories.
The three texts, Oedipus The King, Aias, and Philoktetes, define an identity as the uniqueness of a character such as the strength and skills, the representation of that character to other people, and the true heritage. However, an identity one spends his life to build can fall apart within a second by any illness, action, or sudden revelation who they actually are. Aias, Oedipus, and Philoktetes’ carelessness in identifying with their reputations and actions lead their individualities to shatter and change. When Aias, Philoktetes, and Oedipus are forced to undergo destruction or alteration of their identities, they use their physical suffering to cope with the psychological distress of losing their identities.
