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Identity - Coggle Diagram
Identity
3) Language as an expression of identity, where society's perscribed identity is not enough
"Godlike science", the monster learns to speak n read
I was dependent on none and related to none. The path of my departure was free, and there was none to lament my annihilation. My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred.
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Paradise lost, sees self in adam/ satan, "I ought to have been thy adam", ".. refuge as pandamonium was" - the exposure to ideas
Forces him to come to terms with his seperate appearance, but gives him ways to assert himself eloquently and understand the world around him
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ROusseau: His early work argued that the development of civilisation had actually led to a decrease in happiness, and that humans should live instead in a state that was as close to nature as possible.
- so the ability to construct their own narrative/ own whatever is important as it allows them to differentiate themseles at least in their minds
when language is used to control and manipulate, wordplay is used to express self
"one false move, and I'm dead"
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Pen is envy - linking writing to men, and therefore power within to society
Despite society's limiting influence on identity, this shows that connection is still an important factor, need for connection to establish identity - Angles, eyes, Aunts, Ironic and misleading names - Ceremony
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