Essays on Self Identity

The hunger for a sense of individuality is a fundamental human need which individuals are willing to pursue at all costs. When we think of individuality, we instantaneously link this to the concept of identity and the notion of individual human experience. When reflecting on...

Identity separates us from everyone else, and while one may be very similar to another, there is no one who is exactly like you, someone who has experienced exactly what you have, feels the way you do, and reacts the same to experiences you’ve had....

‘Six years have passed since I discovered that my son was using drugs,’ wrote Vincenzina Urzia in Anthony and Me (2014), a memoir of her son’s drug addiction. ‘I was really sad all the time and devastated, not to mention how worried I was about...

According to me Identity is referred as a multifaceted concept, which plays a various several aspects in human life and also in the cultures, which varies from person to person. Identity of a human fluctuates from person, religion, place and country. Self-reflection helps you to...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin is about Edna Pontellier who at first is a distant mother and wife seeming self involved yet she still does her duties of taking care of her children and meeting the standards of a wife. Throughout the novel she starts...

Frida Kahlo was no stranger to pain. As much as she was a known artist and famous for painting, she is also famous for her optimism and strength under terrible medical and personal situations. At the age of 6 she was a victim of polio,...

As I enter the double doors, the smell of the crisp icy air fills my pink nose. I gaze into the raw ice in its sleek, unscathed, pure state – I see my reflection. I see a girl with a purpose and the ice is...

“The nation saw itself in the midst of a new war in Vietnam, and culture wars were being fought at home, with the civil rights movement escalating and new youth subcultures emerging that rejected the values of the past…Over the course of the decade, public...

In the novel The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, the author uses the change in Lily Owens as she works through accepting the guilt for accidentally killing her mother to support a theme of finding forgiveness and love for herself; it is...