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IDENTITY - Coggle Diagram
IDENTITY
ENGLISH LITERATURE
People live in a post-revolutionary society where they are constantly watched and everything is controlled. "Big brother" is a dictator that always "watches you"
Citizens are not allowed to have any relationship with others, can't have their own opinion and every form of expression is controlled
In this dystopian society, people lose their identities, they become like objects without any feeling or emotion
"1984" by George Orwell, the loss of identity
ITALIAN LITERATURE
"Il fu Mattia Pascal" by Luigi Pirandello, trying to live without any identity
Mattia Pascal fakes his death, moves to Rome and changes identity, becoming Adriano Meis. He tries to live without a real identity bur soon realizes it is impossible
Typical theme in Pirandello's works: the theme of the masks. Everybody is wearing a number of masks that people and society gives us and they cover your real identity.
He returns home but he doesn't go back at being Mattia Pascal, he gives up after finding out that life is a lie and simply watches other people's lives go on
ART
Renè Magritte, the loss of identity
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PHILOSOPHY
Karl Marx, how identity is determined
Identity (ideas, political theories, social beliefs) is influenced and determined by the economic structure. To change ideas (the way people think) you have to change the economic ways of production.
the way people think is strictly connected to the economic structure, it cannot be changed easily
COMPUTER SCIENCE
A.I. artificial intelligence, how computers try to recreate human identity
The Turing test: a person in a room judges the responses to a human-like conversation from a human and form a computer that is trying to recreate human intelligence, both in separate rooms. If the judge can't recognize which one is the computer, the test is passed.
