Our identity is like a kaleidoscope. With each turn, we reset it not to a former or final state but to a new one that reflects the here-and-now positions of the pieces we have to work with. Firstly we must understand the concept of who is "I". Identity or "I" usually refers to certain properties to which a person feels a sense of attachment or ownership. A personal identity in this sense consists of features a person uses to "define themselves as a person". Even if the identity may feel something greater than itself, there will always be a sense of I-ness. This begs the questions on whether we are really who we think we are.
Identity provides us with the means of answering the question ‘who am are we?' it might appear to be about personality; …show more content…
A quote from Shakespeare's, As you like it talks, how we are only minor "actors" playing a role in another dream. "All the world's a stage, and all men and women are merely players; They all have their exits and entrances…" (Shakespeare's As you like it). In this world, we are actors on a stage playing our role until it is time for our departure. In the different lives that we have experienced we also return to a kind of "heaven" where we take a break and plan the next life. What if the person in charge of the dream woke up and decided that they wanted to end it and destroy it all? In Circular Ruins the wizard finds out from others that his son discovered he could walk through fire, the wizard then ended his life by walking into a burning building. "Not to be a man, to be a projection of another man's dreams‐‐ what an incomparable humiliation...He walked toward the sheets of flame" (Circular Ruins). The illusions we are under are the wizard made a voluntary choice to walk into the fire and destroy himself. Which would destroy his dream, his "son" and destroy him instead of him finding out he is only a part of a man's …show more content…
What makes you ‘you' is there something that remains the same through the various versions of you; call it a life force, even while you become different people. In the beginning Shakespeare’s perception of himself changed when no one related to him but in the end he truly wants to be himself. "I, who have been so many men..want to be one man: myself" (Everything And Nothing). After years of going through many changes in his life through characters, perspectives, and feelings about how he felt isolated and different. In the end, no matter how much he changed the things that remained constant and makes him unique is the fact that he felt isolated and
Identity provides us with the means of answering the question ‘who am are we?' it might appear to be about personality; …show more content…
A quote from Shakespeare's, As you like it talks, how we are only minor "actors" playing a role in another dream. "All the world's a stage, and all men and women are merely players; They all have their exits and entrances…" (Shakespeare's As you like it). In this world, we are actors on a stage playing our role until it is time for our departure. In the different lives that we have experienced we also return to a kind of "heaven" where we take a break and plan the next life. What if the person in charge of the dream woke up and decided that they wanted to end it and destroy it all? In Circular Ruins the wizard finds out from others that his son discovered he could walk through fire, the wizard then ended his life by walking into a burning building. "Not to be a man, to be a projection of another man's dreams‐‐ what an incomparable humiliation...He walked toward the sheets of flame" (Circular Ruins). The illusions we are under are the wizard made a voluntary choice to walk into the fire and destroy himself. Which would destroy his dream, his "son" and destroy him instead of him finding out he is only a part of a man's …show more content…
What makes you ‘you' is there something that remains the same through the various versions of you; call it a life force, even while you become different people. In the beginning Shakespeare’s perception of himself changed when no one related to him but in the end he truly wants to be himself. "I, who have been so many men..want to be one man: myself" (Everything And Nothing). After years of going through many changes in his life through characters, perspectives, and feelings about how he felt isolated and different. In the end, no matter how much he changed the things that remained constant and makes him unique is the fact that he felt isolated and