Essays on Self Identity

The concepts of self are various defining characteristics that piece together who individuals are and include influences from their environment which affect personal attributes. The intricate and unique interactions experienced help tie together how a person defines their self (Fiske, 2013). Social influences contribute to...

Who you are and how you know yourself is a query that everyone in some unspecified time in the future will ask themselves. However, this question can only be answered by you, because no one spends more time with you than you do. Plato and...

“How well do you know yourself?”, seems an easy question to figure out but when being asked you could be thinking twice. Do I really know myself as an individual or do I need to depend on what other people perceive on me? Somehow, a...

I am Rita Rani, 25 years old, born in India, Punjab. I have a great personality and very simple and very good dressing sense. I am more confident and able to take decision of my life by own. As I belong to nursing profession I...

Growing up in a multiracial family can be confusing, especially if one’s family history has been kept a secret for years. This is the problem for James McBride, whose lifelong struggle of self-identity kept him from truly understanding and accepting who he was and where...

In Girlhood (2014), Marieme (Karidja Touré) faces a question of self identity. Troubled by poor performance in school and an abusive older brother, Marieme joins an all-girl gang to define herself and her individuality through petty crime, alcohol, and violence, as well as love and...

?From the point of view of a reader, it is clear that Jamaica Kincaid is not satisfied with the way Antigua is now. By comparing pre-colonial Antigua with colonial and post-colonial Antigua, Kincaid creates a novel that is anti-tourist and questions whether the island was...

Personal identity is the concept that develops about oneself that evolves over the course of life. This may include aspects of life that one have no control over, such as where one grew up or the color of skin, as well as choices one make...

Introduction The self-concept is the perspective of how an individual sees himself/herself. It is based on the principle in which a person believes himself to be and how others perceive him to be. It is closely related to self-awareness and self-esteem but the latter have...

The implications of one’s identity make it a defining factor that is not only very intuitive and reflective of one’s beliefs, values, and associations, but also has longstanding implications beyond that. The way one chooses to define themselves is sometimes subject to prejudice, judgment, or...

Re-Defining Poetry: Whitman and Dickinson In the discussion of literary trailblazers in America’s shallow history, poets Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are seldom left behind. Whitman and Dickinson are often tagged by their ability to fuse form and content as they made huge risks and...

What is it that makes me different from everyone else? This is a question most philosophers ask when it comes to personal identity. This precisely is a question of life and death and the accurate answer is to decide on which changes a person can...

I recently read the essay Double Identity, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. The essay discussed the way that the authors life was as she grew up. She discusses how she had to live two separate lives, do to the strict family rules and also the influence...

As I continue my journey in life, I always ask myself this question, “What is my true identity?” Am I a daughter? A sister? A friend? A student? Then I realized, I am all of those. I am a daughter because I am my parents’...

There are approximately 7.7 billion human beings around the world. So what sets me apart from others? It is my identity that sets me apart from others. I think of it as singular (male) and multifaceted (family identity). To me family identity means a socially...

T-shirts aren’t always the most appropriate forms of expression, but a very effective way individuals represent and express ideas along with beliefs. Although, t-shirts are a very simple and discrete way of expression, therefore, utilizing an individual’s thought process and opinion bases. Many individuals consider...

No person on Earth is perfect. If this were true, then the world would be a very boring place. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. Some people know how to handle their weaknesses in the right way and try to learn from them. Others keep...

In the book Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, there are many characters that faced obstacles in finding themselves. One of these characters is Ying-Ying St. Clair. Throughout the various stages of life, as a child, adult, and a mother, Ying-Ying St. Clair has struggled...

In the short story, How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, Halfie, there are many different forms of identity that can be taken from the story as a reader. This short story is about a boy who is about to go on a date with...

The question of ‘Do I control who I am’ has no easy answer. To an extent, the answer is yes. You can control what you choose to do. However, what you choose to do is constrained by what you have been taught. The concept of...

“Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance.” — Lily Fairchilde After reading this statement, one can be fully immersed into perceiving Australian author, Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites, through the lens of...

Introduction As Josie said in Melina Marchette’s novel, ‘Looking for Alibrandi’, “You can’t hate what your part of. What you are. I resent it most of the time, curse it always, but it’ll be part of me till the day I die.’ In today’s ever-growing...

How do you present yourself to the world online and offline? Are you the same person Online & Offline? Which version of you is most true? As we spend more and more time connected to our digital devices, we now live in two worlds. Living...

Self-concept is your interior identity, or who you think you are. It is essentially what you see yourself as. Many people may use self-image in place of self-concept, but that would not be factually correct. Self-image only applies to how you view yourself in a...

With mass immigration from Central, Southern, Eastern Europe, and Asia into New York City and the Great Migration of Blacks from the South into Chicago and other Northern cities around the turn of the twentieth century, the Northern old-stock White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite came into...

An admittedly autobiographical poet, Michigan-born Theodore Roethke draws much of his influence for his subject matter from everyday life. Many of his poems deal with his own self-introspection and quest to find himself through verse. Roethke is a visceral poet whose evocative verse reflects real-life...

True Allegiance Glitter, pageants, pom-poms, ballet shoes, and batons: what is a girl to do when these are the highest expectations of her peers? In the school system where I grew up, these were the expectations for girls who wished to be popular and accepted....

A tattoo is a body modification where someone has drawn an image on someone else’s skin and body art is different piercings that people have on their body to represent their creativity. All tattoos or body art have health risks that can be minor or...

“I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children, but I wouldn’t give myself, ” Edna admits. Unfortunately for Edna, she struggles all throughout her short lived life trying to balance her family and love...