Identity in literature is as critical as the formation of personalized and psychoanalytic evaluations. Identity is a concept that revolves upon various disciplines with a particular bias to psychology and self-study. The smithereens that define a person in terms of characters and idiosyncratic nuances make a person different from each other. Often, such uniqueness emerges in the form of language use as well as cultural orientations. In essence, the measure of language is vital in extracting the dimensions of literary studies. Many writers identify the linguistic contributions that social paradigms play in language and identity crises (Plath 431). This paper reviews a variety of texts with different portrayals of identity in terms of participation and drive. The major writers that become relevant in this essay include Sylvia Path, and Amy Tan. These writers have created a variety of literature texts extrapolating the ideals of identity within people of diverse racial orientations and the tier therein.
Many of Path’s writings have a strong inclination to the anguish and abyss of an unresolved as well as ambivalent connection of a character to the father. the details of her poetry and journals have a critical revelation of the various complexities that exists in this relationship. The journal reveals a decisive experience of Path after the death of her father at the tender age of eight. The ideals of Reflections of a thirteen year old have attracted a variety of multi-disciplinary reaction including a psychological paradigm in the light of a variety of factors of human life. Jung assets that art has a special kind of innate drive that possesses a person and make the person an instrument of identity revelation (Plath 432). Ideally, a human being may have the moods of and orientations that differ upon submission to a higher sense of collectivity so that the artist will have both the higher sense and the relative activity index.
Additionally, the life of Path is shaped by a variety of conflicts that emerge at many levels of analysis. Conflicts like a personal versus collective, male versus female as well as masculine versus feminine paradigms emerge strongly in the course of the talk. Other elements of conflict emerge in the differences between the self and the false self quite evident in the different assumptions that she withstood in the course of the connection. The determination of identity through the life of Plath emerges from a variety of cultural and personal factors of women in both Plath’s time and the contemporary arena (Plath 432).
On the other hand, varieties of nuances also emerge in the relationship between literature, language, and identity. Language is a critical part of human life that influences a variety of human interaction and actualities to derive the somatic influences of personality indexes. The article by Amy Tan reflects different ideas of paradigm speaking at all levels. Amy emphasizes that at every level, we all have different ways of speaking. Ideally, the manner that we speak determines the orientations we have towards the worked and the stereotypical affluences that emerge in the course of direct correlation. She feels that by the way people speak, different categorizations emerge (Tan). The author of the book apparently is a fictional writer fascinated by the language we use in daily life as well as the usage of language as the conventional part of a writer. In the second and third paragraph of the article, she observes the different experiences that made her to realize the different types of “Englishes” she has been using as a writer and a speaker of different contexts (Tan). The first time she claims to have discovered the idiosyncratic nuances of language and personality occurred when she was giving her speech on The Joy Club. As she gave the talk, in the audience she noticed her mother within and suddenly became aware of the fact that she has been using academic languages that she learnt from the books (Tan). From the presentation, she admits never to have used the same language to her mother before. The second time she realizes the language problem as she walks with her, other and husband in the streets. She claims to have a phrase like “not waste money that way” (Tan) which she claims is a language used intimately by her family alone. The ideology she portrays about identity in this is the manner that our language categorizes the people we are in different ways. For instance, the mother has a variety of broken English, which predict the manner that she relates with her daughter unlike the scholarly attitude and interlude between the daughter and audience in a presentation. She appears to understand the paradigms within the art of language and personality determinism. The fact that her mother has broken English does not tell whether she is unintelligent in any way. In a way, it actually portrays a different orientation and intimacy in the personality of a family closely knit by love. Tan is also quick to assume that her mother does not have any limitation in terms of broken English, as the language she says here is communicative and depends on the interlocutors within the context of speech. In one text by Tan, a speech community determines a great deal of our interactions such that many people would easily diminish their standards and orientations in line with the speech community they belong. In one instance, tan is categorical and specific not to disturb the mechanisms of a directed life. In the case of the mother of Tan, she admits that the mother recognizes her spheres dues to her inability to speak English well which does not in any way reflect on her inability in any way. For instance, learning a new language according to Chomsky requires a variety of devices including age parameters and LAD nuances. Such paradigms are in exceptional variances when it comes to the speech community and identity construction. Tan is very direct in the manner that she see her life and mother’s interaction proceed. In another instance, she fees that language inefficiency is not an absolute determiner a person’s intelligence. In another example, Tan notes a time when they went for a CT scan and the doctor’s los the results. in the process, the mother tried to explain the ideals to the doctors who did not have pay any attention to the details. They did not quite understand the mother and were on the verge of ignoring her when Tan actually came forward and, made the explanation more relatively. The events of the talk proceeded to a careful state. Ideally, ignoring a person or grading the person based on the language that they speak may be disastrous especially in light of the many challenges therein.
Therefore, the language of a community and the mother tongues with the system determines the identity perimeter of the person and ensures that interactions emerge and thrive. The conclusion by tan reflects on the language spoken at home to reflect on the language of interaction of the people especially many immigrants in America. As such, language has a critical way of influencing the personality and identity in life. Such measures are very plausible as language by any means has a way of recreating the means of life and reactivity index. That explains why certain Asian students have an ability to perform much better in mathematics than language tests.
Ideally, identity is a critical stage of the human life. In certain cases, as exemplified by the two writers in the journal and article, personality plays a great part in life and meaning formation of many people. In the case of Path, the emotions and predispositions of many people influences the manner that everybody steers through life. In one way, the manner that people view their past is relative to the emotions of self-identity and creativity. In another instance, the measures of life have a reactive means of responding to human issues. In the case of Tan, language is another constrictor of identity in the manner that people view language deficiency. Many people often associate language deficiency to unintelligent especially from the context of immigrant families in America. Such cases are often false as language ability in learning are determined by a variety of factors including LAD, age and such as the environment that to Tan is as relative as the one she had as a child.
Plath, Sylvia. The collected poems. HarperCollins, 2008.
Tan, Amy. "Mother tongue." Enriching ESOL Pedagogy: Readings and Activities for Engagement, Reflection, and Inquiry, by Vivian Zamel, Ruth Spack. Lawrence Erlbaum (2002): 431-435.