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Identity based on the soul and faith, not wealth or power.
The Christian self was defined by inner morality and relationship with God.
Shifted Western ideas of identity toward spiritual introspection and the battle between good and evil themes that strongly influenced Poe’s exploration of guilt and conscience. -
Martin Luther’s 95 Theses were a list of 95 statements (or arguments) criticizing certain practices and teachings of the Catholic Church, especially the sale of indulgences. Challenges church authority, empowered individual faith, led to political and religious change -
Rebirth of art, science, and humanism in Europe.
Shifted identity from religious obedience to individual expression and human potential. -
under the disciplines such as literature, music and theatre, romanticism is a form of modernism that celebrates emotion, the individual, personal freedom, and national identity -
For the first time, identity can be captured visually and realistically. Portraiture used to only be done for people of high social class, and would only be done for important events. With paintings on the other hand you were able to be creative, however it would never be in the moment. And that is what the camera was able to do. -
Key date: first women’s rights convention.
Impact on identity: Challenged traditional gender roles; encouraged women to form individual and collective feminist identities.
Influenced feminist literary theory, which examines power, silencing, and -
Built for the 1889 Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair), the Eiffel Tower became a symbol of French national identity, modern engineering, and cultural transformation. At its unveiling, France wanted to showcase its recovery and progress after political turmoil—the Franco-Prussian War (1870) and the fall of the Second Empire. -
This story tackles the idea of the creation of a new identity. It takes James Gatz, a poor farm boy of low social class and turns him into Jay Gatsby, a wealthy and mysterious gentleman. Explores American identity, constructed identity, the American Dream, social mobility, and the contrast between appearance and reality. -
National identity during the Spanish Civil War, when Nazi Germany’s army bombed the town of Guernica. Trauma shaping cultural identity
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Dual identity (European vs Indigenous heritage)
Gender, emotional identity, and trauma
Self-portraiture as self-definition
This is one of the strongest identity paintings ever created. -
This play, done entirely in one setting, tackled the ideas of racial prejudice. It goes around a courtroom of 12 men on jury duty tackling a homicide trial. It showed that one person could be the leading cause between someone spending the rest of their lives wrongfully in jail or not -
This novel has to do with racial identity. Under the disciplines of literature, history and film, this novel is one of the strongest identity related texts in history. -
The Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, New York City
Event: A police raid on a gay bar — something common at the time, since same-sex relationships were criminalized and LGBTQ+ spaces were regularly targeted.
But this time, instead of dispersing quietly, the patrons fought back.
That resistance became known as the Stonewall Uprising (or Stonewall Riots). -
Prince blended Black musical traditions with rock (a genre that had been made “white” by the industry).
He reclaimed Black identity within rock music and redefined what a Black male pop icon could look and sound like. His androgynous style, makeup, purple clothes, heels allowed for a fluid expression of gender identity, making him an icon in gender-studies, queer theory, and cultural identity conversations. -
Female identity and autonomy
Friendship as identity
Breaking from societal roles