Identity In Metamorphosis, By Franz Kafa
Identity is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and expressions that make up an individual. Identity is also composed of an individual's self-image, self esteem, and overall individuality. Throughout the unit “Identity in Transformation” many of the themes were recurring in several of the texts. The idea that your identity should not be defined by how others perceive you, identity is not defined by your physical state, and that individuals have the power to create their own identity are all significant themes that relate to how an individual can change and what makes us who we are. The main theme in the text “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafa was the idea that your identity and value should not be determined by how others perceive you,
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This theme is present in both texts “Apollo and Daphne” by Ovid and “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. In the text “Apollo and Daphne”, Daphne, the daughter of a river god was shot with a lead arrow by Cuid and became impervious to all feelings of love, and decided that she wanted to remain a virgin. To escape Apollo and all of the love that he had for her, she was transformed into a tree by her father. “Before her prayer was ended, torpor seized on all of hr body and, a thin bark closed around her gently bosom, and her hair became as moving leaves; her arms were changed changed to waving branches, and her active feet as clinging roots were fastened to the ground- her face was hidden with encircling leaves”. In Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” she discusses the years of oppression that the African American race has faced, and despite all of the struggles that both her and her ancestors have faced, she will not be identified as “broken” or with a “bowed head and lowered eyes”. One of the most powerful quotes in her poem was the stanza “Out of the hut’s of history’s shame I rise, up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise, m a black ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelling I bear in the tide”. In both pieces of literature, the characters create their own identities, despite society's expectations for
This theme is present in both texts “Apollo and Daphne” by Ovid and “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. In the text “Apollo and Daphne”, Daphne, the daughter of a river god was shot with a lead arrow by Cuid and became impervious to all feelings of love, and decided that she wanted to remain a virgin. To escape Apollo and all of the love that he had for her, she was transformed into a tree by her father. “Before her prayer was ended, torpor seized on all of hr body and, a thin bark closed around her gently bosom, and her hair became as moving leaves; her arms were changed changed to waving branches, and her active feet as clinging roots were fastened to the ground- her face was hidden with encircling leaves”. In Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” she discusses the years of oppression that the African American race has faced, and despite all of the struggles that both her and her ancestors have faced, she will not be identified as “broken” or with a “bowed head and lowered eyes”. One of the most powerful quotes in her poem was the stanza “Out of the hut’s of history’s shame I rise, up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise, m a black ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelling I bear in the tide”. In both pieces of literature, the characters create their own identities, despite society's expectations for