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Perspectives on Identity
Identity. How exactly can a person define his or her identity? Is identity the way a person looks? Does the physical make-up of a person constitute his or her identity? If so, any person could potentially steal the identity of another by wearing similar clothes, changing variable factors such as eye, hair, and lip colors. Variation in colors and styles do not constitute a new identity so the notion that identity is only physical cannot be true. Based on that fact, would an incorrect assumption be that identity is encased in the mind, its thoughts, memories and rationale? These things are unique to the individual and cannot be entirely stolen by another. Or can they? Octavia Butler uses characters with shape shifting abilities and telepathy as devices to force her readers to question identity—what comprises it, is identity the way that others perceive an individual? Her novels Patternmaster and Wildseed suggest that identity is something all......

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