Characteristics Of The Personal Shadow

The quote "Character is what you are in the dark" - Dwight Lyman Moody has a few meanings. Mostly it means that you're different when you're alone. When you're around people they are influences of some sort. If you get into a situation when you're with people you might react differently than if you were alone, resulting in a different outcome. A lot of the time people aren't their true self around friends, or family, or whoever it may be for many reasons. A big reason is they don't want to be judged. Maybe they wanna look "cool" or get popular for something. Maybe they think they'll be looked at differently for being who they truly are. So basically fear of what others think keeps us from being who we really are. Fear can make us act different,

There is no denying that every person needs ti have a persona. One’s personality is developed through the different environments, cultures, and even obstacles faced in order to create the type of person we are. When going through the process of finding our identities, we are faced with aspects of ourselves that we do not wish to be defined as. According to the author, Jennifer M. Volland “Stay: The Archetypal Space of the Hotel,” she emphasizes psychologist Carl Jung’s idea that we each have two sides to ourselves that we are either accepting or unaccepting as she states, “the ‘persona’ which is the outward appearance a person presents to the world, and the ‘shadow,’ the subconscious aspects of that person’s personality — that is, the denied parts of one’s self.” We are able to see parallels of Jung’s argument of what are the components of a person’s identity throughout David Wallace’s work, “Shipping Out,” of how the cruise ship internally exploits workers and manipulates their passengers while externally trying to maintain a facade of what the Zenith stands for.

Hello Frances, excellent thoughts on your initial post. I felt the same way too. I was nervous and overwhelmed when I started this course. I thought my assessment skills were thorough. However, with this course, I realized that I still have room for improvement. I agree it is essential to treat our patients holistically. Nurses must include the patient’s culture and values, family and social roles, self-care behaviors, job related stress, developmental tasks, and failures and frustration of life in their health assessments (Jarvis, 2012). Additionally, The Shadow Health assessment with Ms. Tina Jones was a great learning experience. With Ms. Tina Jones I achieved the course objective of communicating effectively, writing my documentations accurately,

Have you really understood what made you who you are? Let me clarify the answer by saying that we’re a mix of the personal and environmental factors that corresponds. Meaning, the persona sculpts us, just the same way as the environment. I’m convinced; Kate Chopin explores this in her 1892 short story Désirée’s Baby. In the story, the racist attitudes, and the prejudice society stimulates Desiree’s selfhood. Chopin questions whether we should jeopardise our self-dignity to preserve our identity?

A person’s identity is influenced by how you view yourself and how society views you. In Jonathan Lykes poem This is a Siren, and the short story The Bear that Wasn’t by Frank Tashlin, both authors shine a light on how great of an impact society can have on an individual’s identity. Society has already established different stereotypes for each individual which causes everyone to perceive others in a certain way without truly getting to know them. This can cause an individual to change the way they perceive themselves in order to be accepted by society and to fit in it’s expectations of that individual. “This thing called perception, that gives people the opportunity for acceptation, or on the flip side, to be a circle of rejection…” (Lykes 2010) Here, Lykes talks about how we perceive each other can either make us accept one another or reject one another. However, in the end, it is up to the individual to decided if they are going

After having read for class, heard the lecture, and researching on my own , I would like to pose the following question to our discussion class: Are we just wired that way? Is it how we were raised decides how we act? Having my parents being involved in my life showed me how to live independently. I learned from my peers who I can trust and who not to trust. I also learned how to play and share with others through interactions. As we grow up we learn how to accept who we are. If we never know ourselves then how can we show others.

As a person goes through their life, they encounter many choices and options. The most obvious ones are what they will wear, eat, or do for each day of their life. Everything that they do, even the most simple decisions, can and will impact them and who they are as a person. This will become a part of their identity. However, as the social beings humans are, their identities can be effected by those around them, virtually and physically. Most especially, every person’s identity is affected by the opinions and thoughts of others which can be expressed online, through verbal comments, and body language. This causes each person to question themselves and attempt to view themselves from the eyes of others. And when people question their identities

When the world we live in is viewed from an anonymous, unbiased standpoint the individuality of ‘I’ has a tendency to diminish away and be replaced by a society of eyes. Who view one’s identity differently then what the individual can see. Life moves on whether we like it or not and how individuals view themselves verses how others perceive them can leave a lasting impression. Everyone has a unique identity and perspective of the world they live in. The way individuals see themselves may appear to be different than what others see in them because of different values, morals and characteristics that shape’s ones identity.

Your family has one of the biggest impacts on who you turn out to be in the world. It doesn’t matter if you have an ideal relationship with your family or a um, putting it lightly, a not so good one like what John Elder Robison, the author of the memoir, “Look Me in the Eye” had. Whatever kind of relationship you have with your parents, you cannot deny that they influenced your identity because they are the people who raised you. Since John Elder’s parents were not good parents, John’s identity was molded into who he is today from trying not to be his parents. John Elder was abused physically and emotionally as a child.

A society’s perception of someone significantly affects the self-identity of that human and their self-esteem. Society often judges people through their upbringings. A child may be raised in challenging situations and not have the same opportunities compared to another child. Friends and family tend be a major factor in a person’s life. The way friends and family interact or how society judges them can make them incredibly self-conscious of themselves. The social position of a human can critically affect how someone interacts in society and how they perceive themselves. In The Great Gatsby,by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, and Night by Elie Wiesel all depict how society affects an individual 's self - identity by how one perceives someone. Society’s perceptions make people feel obligated to compare themselves in one’s upbringings, friends and family and social position.

There’s more to a person’s personality than what may be exposed on the outside. Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Possibility of Evil”, has an excellent example of how a person’s true nature can differ from how they portray themselves to others. Specifically, Miss Strangeworth, at 71 years of age and has been living on Pleasant Street all of her life, has shown to be caring to others, but the story slowly reveals her true nature. Miss Strangeworth’s character is developed by her actions, the narrator’s description of her, and the interactions that others have with her.

Identity is what makes people themselves, including their personality and the people that influence them. People have substantial control over identity, who they are and what they will become because people can control their actions and who will influence their future. In the story “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar, some people have fake emotions to hide their real emotions from the world. In this story, the narrator says “We wear the mask that grins and lies. It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes” (“We Wear the Mask”, pg 1). To “wear the mask that grins and lies” means to obscure their true emotions and to show fake emotions to deceive the world. This shows that people can control who they are because the narrators in this story,

We are always going to have shadows in our lives. As I have grown to where I am now, my shadows have started to disappear. Shadows are barriers that block you from seeing the truth or reality. It is our job to find the light that will clear away those shadows. From a young age, someone can have shadows that can make them naïve or ignorant. As a person ages, develops, and gains more knowledge from things they experience, the shadows begin to fade. As people grow to make build their own ideas and opinions, they begin to make

Our identity can sometimes be shaped by the way others see us. As we have seen, the way in which others view us can have some sort of impact on how we see ourselves. There are also other contributing factors such as our years of adolescence, the basic human need of wanting to belong and maturing; all play an equally important part in the forming of our character and who we are. On balance it appears that there is not only one influence in the shaping of our identity, but there are many.

Why do people feel the need to hide their true forms? What are the reasons for doing so? “For many people, a significant disconnect exists between their outward identity and their true selves. People desire the freedom to be themselves but more often than not, the fear of rejection or disapproval drives