Self In Zootopia

Each and every person on this Earth today has an identity. Over the years, each individual creates their identity through past experiences, family, race, and many other factors. Race, which continues to cause problems in today’s world, places individuals into certain categories. Based on their race, people are designated to be part of a larger, or group identity instead of being viewed as a person with a unique identity. Throughout Richard Wright’s Black Boy, Richard is on a search for his true identity. Throughout Black Boy, one can see that Richard’s racial background assigns him with a certain identity or a certain way in which some

You move to a new town, your promised safety and told you have the ability to be whoever you want. You arrive and all of the sudden people you thought you could trust go insane and are thirsty for blood. You want to help, but your life in now in danger and you have to figure out what is happening in this so called “perfect town”. In this case, all the animals in Zootopia live in harmony and the predators do not eat pray anymore. Throughout the film there are animals that go savage, which is when a animal wants to eat pray and goes back to its original roots. Something is causing these animals to act so out of line and Officer Hopps and Nick Wilde figure it out. Officer Judy Hopps is an ambitious bunny that wants the best for everyone. Nick

A factor that causes important changes in a person’s life is when one experiences the self-realization

The movie Zootopia features a bunny (Judy Hopps) as its main character. She’s from the rural town of BunnyBurrow, coming from a family of carrot farmers but dreaming changing the world as the first ever bunny police officer in the big city of Zootopia. The film follows Judy and her friend Nick Wilde on a quest to solve inter-species problems within Zootopia. This movie features two main groups: predators and prey. The prey makes up a majority of the population (90%). In my opinion this film can be seen in two different ways, a representation of racism as blacks and white from the two primary groups in the film, or in my opinion more accurately how prejudice can turn into racism.

This movie is a great example to help everyone realize the stereotypes, discrimination, and labels that we give to those around us. Not everyone is the same, and we can't judge them based on who they are or where they came from. In this movie, “Zootopia” has reflected stereotype, prejudice, and discrimination. The movie shows that preys are perceived as weak and incapable where it also shows that preys that are small in size such as rabbits are even more discriminated then others. On the other hand, predators are also apparent as dangerous and threatening. Sociologically this explains that race is a group of animals who are aware to share the same biological traits and physical differences because of these observations, individuals make distorted generalizations about the characteristics of an entire social group. More significantly, it affects the attitude they have for the other social group and are used to justify discriminatory

Social labels are very common in the world. In the book, The Ugly Duckling, one of the ducklings turns out to have a different appearance than the others, and is defined by the social label ‘ugly’. This can relate to The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the Greasers, a lower class gang, are looked down upon because of their level of income. For example, Ponyboy wanted to break free of his social label as a Greaser, except his lower financial status challenges him, so he must act to be perceived in a different way. In The Outsiders, S.E Hinton uses social labels to determine how one is perceived and how they must act.

behavior and thus I enter into a different self-state (para 11). He explains himself being

Judith Butler and Kwame Appiah inspect the main cause as to how although we claim to possess autonomy, we’re merely given choices as to what is socially acceptable, which leads to an unbroken cycle of false identifications. Appiah demonstrates how our personalities are largely affected by nurture rather than nature and how each and every person are given a title and expected to live up to those standards. Butler’s claim exemplifies how our bodies are under the influence of others and although we may believe we are different and under a certain category, we are really not entirely different from everyone else. One of our life goals is to be unique, unlike any other and on some socioeconomic level we will allow our choices to be made for us.

The innovative novel Brave New World exploits the theme of the search for identity through its futuristic environment and society, which causes the main protagonist John to become sequestered from the others. In contrast, in the novel Brave New World individuals are supposed to be happy with their identity as it states, ‘…COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY’ (Huxley 1). Although each individual is placed into their own cast either as an alpha, beta, or gamma, they are supposed to be happy. In this obscure society, ‘the people who accidentally attain knowledge have only two choices if they are to survive: they can become oppressors or outcasts’ (‘Brave New’…6). This relates to my theme of identity as these people are constrained to limited amounts

But they define someone as a human being, capable of seeing and interpreting the world in ways vastly different from others. For along with being an individual comes a certain understanding that we each have unique characteristics, and thus no one human experience is alike. Moreover, these unconscious processes that constitute the most private realms of our mind affect how and with whom we interact. I contend, therefore, that the will to give others more insight into our thoughts is dependent on the emotional connection that we feel toward that person, regardless of the definition of the relationship. Though we can never completely convey our own human experiences, there are some people with whom we will inevitably connect easily.

The way the society thrives is by categorizing people into separate groups so there are no blurred lines on place in the world. The director of hatcheries introduces this concept when he says to the students “we also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or epsilons, as future sewage workers or future…world controllers” (Huxley 13). When people are conditioned to

Prompt 1: An Exploration of Self Self is a definition of who we are, and that definition can come from two sources: ourselves and those we are close to. The resulting person is usually some combination of the two perceptions of self. In the works The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, this idea of self is explored.

Sometimes, immigrant culture and similar narratives can be found in film, even animation films, such as Zootopia by Pixar. In Zootopia, the film follows the life of Judy Hopps, a bunny who aspires to become the first bunny officer for the city of Zootopia. The city of Zootopia is the main city of the their civilization with several other civilizations surrounding it. Hopps endure a childhood being ridiculed for her big dreams. After becoming an officer, Hopps goes on to Zootopia to become an officer, but is quickly belittled by her fellow officer and her chief.

Self-consciousness implies a state of mind that makes the individual aware of how others perceive him, and thus influences how he sees himself. In a sub-section of the Phenomenology of Spirit entitled ‘Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness: Lordship and Bondage’, Hegel describes the development of self-consciousness, and that while he agrees with the notion put forth by earlier philosophers that an individual is aware of himself as a conscious being and a subject, he also advances the argument that other beings (and fellow subjects) are objects from the point of view of the primary subject (self). In addition, within the realm of the social arena the individual is often locked into a struggle for the affirmation of his

     Two things can happen when we are required to base our definition of “self” on others.  One can take others’ ways of living and thinking, process them, and formulate his or her own definition, independent of anyone else.  Or, one can use the relationships he or she has with other people on which to base their own definition of self, thus making him or her dependent on those other people.  As young people, we learn and take in all we can through the world, our experiences, and relationships with other people.  From there, we grow and establish our own identities, our own “selves”, in response to those interactions with others.  This definition is continually growing and progressing as we evolve as people, interacting with different people in different environments and