Experience: Identification

Recognizing, in a character’s experience, a conflict that you have experienced

Related terms: Double Identification

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Le Cid
Experience: Identification
Narrative Technology: Soliloquy
"My father or my bethrothed? Love or honor?/ Duty's harsh bonds or the heart's sweet tyranny?/ Either my happiness dies, or my name is ruined;/ One is bitter, the other unthinkable."
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Hamlet
Experience: Identification
Narrative Technology: Soliloquy
To be or not be/ That is the question:/Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer/ The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune/ Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,/ And by opposing, end them?
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Experience: Identification
Narrative Technology: Soliloquy
Huck was torn between "his wish to save himself by acting like an angel--and his desire to save his friend Jim by lying, cheating, and stealing" (Fletcher 296).
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January 9, 2025
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Experience: Identification
Narrative Technology: Soliloquy
Werther is torn between "his love for Charlotte--and his admiration for Charlotte's betrothed" (Fletcher 296).
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January 9, 2025
Robinson Crusoe
Experience: Identification
Narrative Technology: Soliloquy
Crusoe is torn between "his hunger for adventure and his aspiration to settle down, work hard, and enjoy a life of honest prosperity" (Fletcher 296)
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January 9, 2025
To Kill a Mockingbird
Experience: Double Identification
Narrative Technology: Soliloquy in a Soliloquy
Scout Finch is torn between listening to her father's advice and ignoring Cecil's racist remarks or proving she isn't a coward by responding. Scout then observes other characters' soliloquies (and we identify with the characters Scout identifies with).
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025