Oedipus And The Joy Luck Club Essay

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In the stories, “Oedipus Rex” and “The Joy Luck Club”, the characters of the stories are placed in a society where they are guided by rules, with the people and events in these stories the characters are shaped to go against the standard and rule to shift their identity, but the characters change themselves, but the way they change can be beneficial but can also ruin everything.

There are people in these large event, who we interact with and with these interaction we learn and take what we learn in a certain way which can vary between people, Forming one’s identity. “My mother never talked about her life in China, but my father said her from a terrible life there,”.With the mother being saved she was shifted to a person, who was considered
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what people see you as and how you want to act can very well can both you and the people seeing how you act and present yourself.Where you placed and the rules you must follow set moral and what is right and wrong in the eyes of everyone in the community.With having morals and rules your follow as a base through life can change how you interact with other and create relation many who follow and disagree.There are events in everyone's life and these events can be very impactful but sometimes not, but how it affect someone depend on how they analyze the event and what they take from it. How someone analyze and sees a event small or big and how they learn from these event can shifts someone's identity. these stories show and hold a similar theme between all of them.With many parts of someone’s conflicting and being analyzed and seen differently people are shifted with every part of their life, event, people, and society rules make a big part of who someone is and can be consider major part of one's

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