Summary:
Questions how different factors and circumstances influence a person's identity. In an attempt to answer the question, evaluates a number of literary references, including Henry VI, Stand By Me, and Beneath Clouds.
In a broad sense, identity is the characteristics that make up who you are. It can be divisible into self-concept, and others' concept of the self. It may or may not be that different factors and circumstances affect it. William Shakespeare's Henry IV communicates the idea that self-concept is innate and untouchable, and that others' concept of the self is more consequential, and thus more important to the notion of identity. It makes a very distinct division between the two aspects, inward and outward, identity. In contrast, Ivan Sen's Beneath Clouds and Rob Reiner's Stand By Me, show a distinct connection between factors and circumstances, and their influence on self-concept.
Writers present the relationship between self-concept and others' concept of the self in different ways. Rob Reiner's Stand By Me relates the idea that others' concept.....
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